>
> BUT, if people already complain about "\" being ugly, having to write
> "namespace\" is going to make them REALLY grumpy...
> So maybe at the same time (or, probably, in advance) we need to come
> up with a nicer syntax for explicitly referencing the current
> namespace.
> Unfortunately, finding unused syntax is hard, which is why we have
> "\" in the first place (and for the record, I think it works just
> fine), but maybe something like "_\" could work? Giving us:
> namespace Foo;
> $native_length = strlen('hello'); # same as \strlen('hello')
> $foo_length = _\strlen('hello'); # same as \Foo\strlen('hello')
>
namespace foo using global functions;
- or -
namespace foo using local functions;
Tell PHP what you want at the per-file level.