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Subject:  Re: [PHP-DEV] namespace separator and whining
From: sb@sebastian-bergmann.de (Sebastian Bergmann)

Greg Beaver schrieb:
>> It was mentioned on IRC that internal functions have to be 
>> prefixed with \ when used in a namespaced file. Without a fallback.
> 
> This is not true, and the unit tests demonstrate that

 Thank you for clearing this up.

> 1) check for namespaced\functionname
> 2) check for internal functionname
> [...]
> 1) check for namespaced\classname
> 2) try to autoload namespaced\classname
> 3) check for internal classname

 This is exactly what I would assume to happen; I am relieved.

> So not all details are completely nailed down, but these are 
> independent of whether \ or :: or &*@$#% is used as the separator, 

 Honestly, I do not really care about the separator and I think that \
 is the best choice of the ones that were available.

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