Re: Re: RFC: Dropping Namespace

I don't understand what are you going to demonstrate with this example. Did you try to run it? It produces error as expected. DOMDocument() in your example is a user-space class that is not related to internal ext/dom class. If you like to use internal class that is overriden in namespace you can use ::DomDocument instead. The "use DomDocument as test;" is useless from my point of view. You always may override internal classes in namespaces. Thanks. Dmitry. Derick Rethans wrote:

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Gregory Beaver 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.

No, use should not allow this. Take the following example: <?php namespace blah; use DomDocument as test; class DOMDocument { } $dom = new DOMDocument; // $dom->loadXML('<books><book><title>blah</title></book></books>'); $s = simplexml_import_dom($dom); echo $s->book[0]->title; // blah ?> Besides this being a *big* WTF factor (why is my internal class suddendly doing something else?) simplexml will horrible fail in this case. Derick