Re: Namespace problem?

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 08:50, Alexey Zakhlestin <indeyets@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Stefan Priebsch <info@e-novative.de> wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> I was playing around with namespaces and stumbled across this: >> >> #!/home/steve/php5.3-200807070430/sapi/cli/php >> <?php >> >> namespace Foo; >> >> use Foo::Bar as Something; >> >> class Bar { } >> >> ?> >> >> works fine, whereas >> >> #!/home/steve/php5.3-200807070430/sapi/cli/php >> <?php >> >> namespace Foo; >> { >> use Foo::Bar as Something; >> >> class Bar { } >> } >> >> ?> >> >> yields: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_USE >> in /home/steve/namespaces/code/with_braces.php on line 6 > > "use" is a file-level construct, as far as I remember, so you can't > put it into block I thought the only argument against using curly braces for namespaces was exactly his example "you can use namespace foo; {} if you really want to"? -Hannes