Re: Re: Global namespace?

Hello emo, Tuesday, September 11, 2007, 4:50:01 PM, you wrote: > I believe I read somewhere that it will look like this: > ::class_b->method_c(); This is the preferred way as it doesn't introduce a new keyword. Also this is inline with other languages. > for accessing global scope. > Regards, > Emil Ivanov > Richard Quadling wrote: >> Assume for some reason you have an entity in a namespace which has the >> same name as something in the global namespace. >> >> Within the namespace, you wouldn't need to use the namespace prefix >> (maybe it has been aliased, subclassed or some other reference). >> >> How would you access the global namespaced entity? >> >> For variables, object instances, references, etc., you can use >> $GLOBALS[], but if the namespace is going to look like ... >> >> namespace_a::class_b->method_c(); >> >> Should there be an alias for global? >> >> global::class_b->method_c(); >> >> Or have I missed something? >> Best regards, Marcus