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Subject: Why are the PHP namespaces different compared to C++?
From: markg85@gmail.com (Mark)

Hi,

I was just using the PHP namespaces for the first time and noticed a
difference that i really didn't expect. (No, i won't start complaining
about the slash based namespace).

In C++ when you type:
using std;

Then you can use all methods/classes/whatever is defined in std
without typing std.
so: std::cout becomes just cout.

In PHP that's a bit different. Lets take this as an example:
=================================
namespacetst.php

<?php
namespace Some\Long\Namespace;

Class SomeClass
{
}


Now the one using that "SomeClass" has to do something like this:
index.php
use Some\Long\Namespace;

$oClass = new Namespace\SomeClass();
=================================

Yes, you can also do:

index.php
use Some\Long\Namespace\SomeClass;
$oClass = new SomeClass();

But i'm wondering why the "use Some\Long\Namespace" doesn't work like
the C++ one. Since i would have guessed that adding that use will give
me access to all the methods/classes/whatever that live within that
namespace _without_ having to prefix it with the last part of the
namespace.

I hope someone can shed some light over this.

Regards,
Mark