Namespace resolution rules has been changed?

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

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

$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