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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] my last attempt at sanity with namespaces
From: greg@chiaraquartet.net (Greg Beaver)

Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> Namespaces aren't autoloadable, classes are. But what I see happening
> is that people would start converting excisting code, and since they
> are human they will inevitable forget or miss class here and there.
> And it would work, and pass all tests, and look fine and dandy on the
> outside - but under the water it would contain the performance bomb of
> non-cacheable exhaustive autoload search. It is a big disservice for
> our users to put them into this situation where you need to be an
> expert to even notice where the problem is - especially that we
> *already* know the problem exists and we *know* how to fix it. Why not
> just fix it? 

Hi Stas,

Was your proposal to do this for name resolution:

<?php
namespace blah;
$a = new Exception;

1) if for blah::Exception exists, use it
2) try to autoload blah::Exception
3) fail

instead of having the internal resolution?  I would support this, and am
sorry if I mischaracterized your proposal in solution to issue #2.  I
really thought I was proposing the thing you all worked out at ZendCon,
it was a simple misunderstanding on my part.

Greg