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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:32:19 +0100
Cc: Gregory Beaver <greg@chiaraquartet.net>,
 Christian Schneider <cschneid@cschneid.com>,
 PHP Development <internals@lists.php.net>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] namespace separator and whining
From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith)


On 05.11.2008, at 00:12, Marcus Boerger wrote:
>> classes:
>> 1) try ns::class
>> 2) autoload ns::class
>> 3) fail
>
> Since we can stack autoload we could provide a c-level autoload  
> function
> that does the default lookup.
>
> function global_autoload($name) {
>  if (($p = strrpos($name, '\\')) !== false) {
>    $name = substr($name, $p);
>    if (__NAMESPACE__ == substr($name, 0, $p -1) && class_exists("\\ 
> $name")) {
>      use "\\$name";    // if we find a way to do this at C-levle
>    }
>  }
> }


just to make sure i understand this correctly .. you are suggesting  
here that we make it somehow possible in __autoload() to fallback to  
the global namespace. so that if someone wants the fallback to global  
namespace behavior for classes, he could get this by calling this  
standard autoload function (or rather by using the spl autoload stack  
- noting that spl may not be disabled anymore as of PHP 5.3).

more specifically you want to enable use statements inside autoload. i  
presume that use statement would only be in effect for this single  
name resolution? as in the use statement would not have an affect on  
subsequent triggering of autoload, even when originating from the same  
file?

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org