No, this wouldnt be backwards compatible to the PHP 5.2 behavior, hence inconsistent.
The convention is class names in strings are ALWAYS fully qualified, therefore the prefix backslash is not necessary. On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:14:45 -0300 Martin Scotta <martinsco...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > would it be safer that get_class return the fully qualified class name ? > > namespace A\B\C { > class Test { } > echo get_class( new Test ); // it prints A\B\C\Test > }; > > It should print \A\B\C\Test, as explained > http://php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.rules.php > > Martin Scotta -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php