AW: [STANDARDS] Documenting strange include behaviour

From: Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:17:31 +0000
Subject: AW: [STANDARDS] Documenting strange include behaviour
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Rowan Collins [mailto:rowan.collins@gmail.com] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. November 2014 15:22 > An: standards@lists.php.net > Betreff: Re: [STANDARDS] Documenting strange include behaviour > > Robert Stoll wrote on 13/11/2014 14:11: > > From the example above we can see that variables and constants > > defined with define() do not remain in their namespace > > Constants defined with define() are never scoped to the current namespace, this is not related > to the use of include. > > There's a user note in the manual which explains this rather well, and should probably be > rolled into the text of the manual > itself: > http://php.net/define#90282 > Oh, I see, my fault, the behaviour of const and define is perfectly fine then. That variables are transferred to the namespace they are included to seems ok to me as well (that's at least what I expected). In this sense global $var within foo is ok as well. I guess that already covered all my open questions, thanks Rowan. I'll write up a section in the spec.

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