Hello Steph,

Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 2:33:47 AM, you wrote:

>>> However, in the global scope (no namespace) it would fail.  This is a
>>> bug that is easily fixed.  use should allow re-aliasing of global
>>> classes, and I could provide a very easy fix.
>>
>> This is not a bug - since there you work with test::xmlreader, which of 
>> course you can define. But in global space you'd work with existing name 
>> xmlreader, which would be redefined. And PHP never allowed redefining 
>> classes.

> I'm truly glad you said that's not a bug, my world just started to make 
> sense again. But Stas, consider (old dialect bc I need to update locally 
> sorry):

> import nstest::test as whatever;

> This works in the global space, right? Now along comes, say, Pierre or 
> Derick or Marcus with this class they just have to add to an existing 
> (non-namespaced) core extension, and the obvious and perfect name for this 
> class happens to be 'whatever'. I upgrade PHP and suddenly I start seeing

> Fatal error: Import name 'whatever' conflicts with defined class in ...

There is no technical reason for this. If this is true I am strongly against
namespaces at all because then there is nothing usefull left.

Best regards,
 Marcus

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