JH>>With the above scenario, nothing will be affected if there is an 
JH>>opcode cache or not. The only situation I can think of where an opcode 
JH>>cache can affect this is when the script DYNAMICALLY creates classes 
JH>>from the imported namespace. Maybe there's other situations, but I 
JH>>can't come up with any at the moment.

No, more simple - somebody removes one of the classes. Even if nothing in 
your code ever used it, you'd start getting errors about missing files.

JH>>Either way, I'm not sure if full namespace imports are a good idea anyways.

Without this, only thing you are achieving with imports is saving a couple 
of keystrokes. If you have to declare each imported class anyway, why not 
name it by the full name? Just saving a dozen of keystrokes (which any 
good code-completing editor would save anyway) and one require statement 
is not worth the trouble, IMHO.

JH>>Issues like the one you presented are one reason, and the other is that it
JH>>is bad practice. If multiple namespaces are imported, readability is
JH>>affected (which class belongs to which namespace?). Also, if two namespaces

That's a general problem with all namespace imports.

JH>>are imported, and one day a new class is added to one which has the same
JH>>name as another, then there will suddenly be a compile error, and the error
JH>>will be elusive.

Right, that's one more problem with namespace imports. 
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