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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [PHP-DEV] namespace examples (solving name resolution
 order issues)
From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> a use statement.  For those who aren't clear on what Stas is saying,
> here is the better example:
> 
> <?php
> namespace PEAR2::Pyrus::PackageFile::v2Iterator;
> use namespace::File, namespace::FileAttribsFilter, namespace::FileContents;
> ?>

No, actually that's not what I meant. You can do this too, but I meant 
just use namespace::File. There's no law about using :: in the code, 
really. Just write namespace::File, it's both short and clear.

> Now for the good news.  The reason it is so slow is that the autoload is
> called for every single invocation of the class name.  With the patch at
> http://pear.php.net/~greg/resolution_fix.patch.txt this performance is

What this patch does?

> Now that the performance hit is minimal, can we agree to get along on
> this proposed change Stas? ;)  It transforms the critical nature of the
> problem to a truly minor performance hit on internal class usage without
> use or ::.

Please read my response to your previous email, I have described there 
issues with your proposal and how to make it non-contradictory and what 
else needs to be done.
-- 
Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect
stas@zend.com   http://www.zend.com/
(408)253-8829   MSN: stas@zend.com