AW: [PHP-DEV] forbid use declaration outside of a namespace in PHP 7

> Sorry, I apparently missed this the first time. Would this mean that this sort of script (where > we're using use statements > without a > namespace) would no longer work? > > <?php > use GuzzleHttp\Client; > > include __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php'; > > $client = new Client; > // $client is a GuzzleHttp\Client object ?> > > Because that strikes me as an irritating and unnecessary BC break for people who are writing > throwaway scripts (with no > need to live in > namespaces) that pull in namespaced libraries to me. > > Adam > That's still perfectly fine because in your code the use statement is not outside of a namespace, it is implicitly in the default namespace. I am talking about the two following scenarios: use \Exception; namespace test; $e = new Exception(); //would fails because test\Exception is unknown -> use was defined outside the namespace Or namespace a{ } use some\UseDeclaration\which\is\outside\of\AnyNamespace as Useless; // sorry for begin biased ^^ namespace test{ } Cheers, Robert