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Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:22:33 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Specify namespace to include file into.
From: glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt ("Gustavo Lopes")

On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:51:34 +0100, Michael Morris  
<dmgx.michael@gmail.com> wrote

>> I also don't understand your template argument. Why would you need to
>> namespace templates? Typically they are included from inside a function  
>> (and therefore don't change/access the global namespace).
>
> You forget that variable scope and namespace scope have absolutely
> nothing to do with each other.  At all.  If I have a template that
> needs to call a function from within my project's namespace it must
> either use the fully qualified name of the function or it must declare
> the namespace it is part of on the first line.

Sorry, I confused things here for a moment. This in fact seems to be a  
valid use case. But you're only saving a line, and you can't rely on the  
fallback to globals because it would create an ambiguity.

-- 
Gustavo Lopes