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Subject: [PHP-DEV] Re: Namespace resolution rules has been changed?
From: david@grudl.com (David Grudl)

Try to answer the question: what is the $obj instance of?

namespace foo;
$obj = $factory->loadClass('bar\class');

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$factory is implemented cca this way:

namespace ?;

class Factory
{
    function loadClass($class) {
       return new $class;
    }
}


With absolute FQN is the answer evident. With relative FQN it is very 
esoteric.

With relative FQN developers will have to implement "save" loadClass() 
this way:

function  loadClass($class)
{
     if (strpos($class, '\\') !== FALSE && strncmp($class, '\\', 1)) {
        $class = '\\' . $class;
     }
     return new $class;
}

OMG

David Grudl