Re: namespace separator and whining

On Tuesday 04 November 2008 18:27:43 Steph Fox wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > > Dev writes a script, uses autoload, overrides global class. > > Distributed to user, that has ns.lookup=On as you propose, user borks his > > install, lacks the file containing the class, gets the global class -> > > obscure error messages because of nonexisting methods in places unrelated > > to > > the place where the actual error happened. Not really a good idea, IMO. > > This is what happens now, right. So what's different? With the proposed change -- failing at "step 3", it doesn't. It fails at the time that you try to create the instance, saying the class was not found, which is actually the case. > > > Failing there is the best option. It's not like you have to prefix every > > single occurence, you just have to say at the top of the file "When I say > > Exception, I mean \Exception". > > The point is that your dev would have done exactly that, so whether your > user has the setting on or off is immaterial. > > - Steph No, the dev didn't mean \Exception, he meant *his* exception, the one that he has in the current namespace, and any way your setting would not have resulted in any error, because for the dev, autoload worked. Regards, Stefan