Bug #68410 [NEW]: new \NumberFormatter does not work in namespace

From: thomas at nunninger dot info Operating system: Linux PHP version: 5.6.2 Package: PHP Language Specification Bug Type: Bug Bug description:new \NumberFormatter does not work in namespace Description: ------------ If I have a namespace and call new \NumberFormatter(...) inside the namespace I get Fatal error: Class 'x\NumberFormatter' not found in /home/thomas/test.php on line 7 If I add use \NumberFormatter; it works. BTW: I found this error in a class method. The reproducing script does not use classes. Test script: --------------- <?php namespace x; # use \NumberFormatter; $nf = new \NumberFormatter( 'de_DE', NumberFormatter::PATTERN_DECIMAL ); var_dump( $nf ); Expected result: ---------------- object(NumberFormatter)#1 (0) { } Actual result: -------------- Fatal error: Class 'x\NumberFormatter' not found in /home/thomas/test.php on line 7 -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68410&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68410&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68410&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68410&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68410&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68410&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68410&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68410&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68410&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68410&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68410&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68410&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68410&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68410&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68410&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68410&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68410&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68410&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68410&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68410&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68410&r=mysqlcfg