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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:55:14 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] my last attempt at sanity with namespaces
From: rquadling@googlemail.com ("Richard Quadling")

2008/10/15 Greg Beaver <greg@chiaraquartet.net>:
> Hi,
>
> http://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespaceissues
>
> Read it and discuss.  Let's be clear people: the technical problems in
> namespaces are limited and solvable.  The problems in the political
> environment surrounding them may not be.  Wouldn't politics be a
> stupid-ass reason to remove namespaces?
>
> Greg

With regard to accessing internal classes within a namespace, would
using the namespace separator be enough?

namespace blah;
function __autoload($class)
{
    include $class . '.php';
}
$a = new Exception('hi'); // Internal
$b = new :::Execption('lo'); // Namespaced

It seems that it is up to me as the userland develop to explicitly
identify namespaces vs classes (I like :::), so I would have though
I'd need to deal with this when I want to call my namespaced class vs
a built in class.

Autoload would only get called if the correctly identified namespaced
class wasn't already present. If I said use the built in class, then
so be it.

OOI, would __autoload get "blah:::Exception" or just "Exception" ? If
the latter, how would I differentiate?

-- 
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Richard Quadling
Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731
"Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!"