Req #70841 [NEW]: Group use declarations doesn't work for global symbols

From: david at grudl dot com Operating system: PHP version: 7.0.0RC6 Package: *Compile Issues Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description:Group use declarations doesn't work for global symbols Description: ------------ Group use declarations doesn't work for globals: <?php namespace Abc; use \{SplStack, SplHeap}; // or use function \{is_array, is_int}; This generates Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{', expecting identifier (T_STRING) in ... Group use declarations for global functions should be really useful, because some functions (is_array, strlen, ...) are inlined in PHP7. -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70841&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70841&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70841&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70841&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70841&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70841&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70841&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70841&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70841&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70841&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70841&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70841&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70841&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70841&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70841&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70841&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70841&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70841&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70841&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70841&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70841&r=mysqlcfg