On Fri, 23 Aug 2024, at 13:45, Mike Schinkel wrote:
>> On Aug 23, 2024, at 8:33 AM, Rowan Tommins [IMSoP] <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 23 August 2024 13:04:22 BST, Mike Schinkel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> And how can it occur without an explicit use
>>> AcmeComponents\SplineReticulator\Utilities\Text\Text statement, which I proposed would
>>> override the automatic use, anyway?
>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean. Right now, that's the function name that would be
>> looked up for your example code (other than a couple of unrelated typos in your example). So if, for
>> some reason, someone was relying on that, their code would break with your "automatic
>> use".
>
> I must be missing something. Can you give a specific example showing
> how the automatic use would conflict with something other than a root
> namespace?
You already gave the example yourself, you just misunderstood what its current behaviour is. Here it
is, with the typos fixed: https://3v4l.org/6eD3N
As you can see from the error message, it doesn't look up "Text\strlen()", it looks
up "AcmeComponents\SplineReticulator\Utilities\Text\Text\strlen()"
Or to be even clearer: https://3v4l.org/ojVcP