Desired namespace behavoir

Bart de Boer schrieb:

namespace JessieStuff {
class FirstClass { ... }
class SecondClass {
public $obj;
function __construct() {
$this->obj = new FirstClass();
}
}
}

Now we'd import this with prefixing everything and the
result would be something that acts like:

class JessieStuff_FirstClass { ... }
class JessieStuff_SecondClass {
public $obj;
function __construct() {
$this->obj = new FirstClass();
}
}

Then, if I do:
$x = new JessieStuff_SecondClass();

I'd get an error that 'FirstClass' can't be found. Because it's
renamed to JessieStuff_FirstClass.

Nope. First of all, using FirstClass INSIDE the namespace would always
prefer using the own namespace. Local definitions override global
definitions (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_namespace ).
And then, the class is hopefully NOT renamed but aliased:

namespace a
{
class A1 {}
class A2
{
protected $m=null;
protected $n=null;
public function __construct()
{
// should both work
$this->m=new A1();
$this->m=new a:::A1();
}
}
}
$x=new a:::A2();

import namespace a;
$y=new A2(); // should work after import

import a:::A2 as Foo;
$z=new Foo(); // should work, A2 locally knows A1

$yikes=new a_A2(); // should work with auto_import_prefix set to on

Or do you suggest we replace all occurences of 'new ClassName()' to
'new JessieStuff_ClassName()' as well?
Occurences where?

Or do you suggest that everything that was inside the namespace is
still able to call "internal" classes without using the namespace
prefix? And your INI option only provides interface classes?
This is part of the definition of namespaces.
And yes, I want the INI option to just provide aliases.
If these are implemented by injecting

class a_A2 extends a::A2 {}

as interface classes or by internally providing a hash table alias is
only different from a technical point of view. The result would be the
same, the performance would probably better using the alias.

OLLi