Re: Order of class resolution with namespaces and autoload

Quoting Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com>:

Yes. I think that if you use an unqualified name it should always be relative to the namespace (and importing internal classes into your namespace lets you use short names for them, avoiding ::Exception).

Unfortunately, there are problems with this solution, since it makes common case harder to implement - internal classes are more frequently used than overridden. It makes harder to convert library code which does not use tricks like overriding system classes - which is on my experience most of the code - you have now to go to almost every file and find all the system classes you have used there and put imports for them.

My last word on this is just going to be to ask you to consult with the Zend Framework team (Matthew W.), PEAR2 (Greg), and perhaps some other large PHP class libraries/frameworks. I don't think it's unreasonable to say that namespaces should be heavily influenced by the kind of large projects that will use them. I'm speaking for Horde; if all the other large projects prefer it the way it currently is, then that's fine, I can live with that, but if not, I just ask that you reconsider. Thanks, -chuck