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Subject: RFC: Namespace declaration with leading backslash
From: Bernhard.Schmalhofer@gmx.de (Bernhard Schmalhofer)

Hi,

I was looking at namespaces in PHP 5.3, 
http://de3.php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.definition.php.
There I found myself wondering  why a leading backslash in namespace 
declaration
is not allowed. For example:

<?php

namespace \A {
  echo "in namespace \\A\n";
}

?>


I image that a trailing backslash could become a common programming error,
especially as it is required when refering to symbols with their 
absolute name.

<?php

namespace A {
     const FOO = "This is FOO in namespace \\A\n";
}

namespace B {
     echo \A\FOO;
}

?>

Best regards,
   Bernhard Schmalhofer