I can't think of any good use case for a bulk import outside of laziness. Any good IDE will handle this for you and if you are importing as \ then why don't you just not namespace them in the first place.
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:33 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalys...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > > I would love to have namespace that could be imported like > > > > namespace \php\7\function\* as \; // Import all functions to \ > > namespace \php\7\function\* as \; > > Please no. When we designed namespaces, we explicitly omitted bulk > imports, and the reasons that were true then are still true now. Bulk > imports are a road to a huge mess and return to the same problem > namespaces were created to fix. > > -- > Stas Malyshev > smalys...@gmail.com > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >