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A comment on An Exceptional Change in PHP 7.0. Parent comment

Re:An Exceptional Change in PHP 7.0 by Washuu on Monday October 05, 2015 @06:42PM (#10335537)
The namespace separator is not required if already in the correct scope. I am not sure why the author decided to include them in the examples.
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Re:An Exceptional Change in PHP 7.0 by kijin on Monday October 05, 2015 @10:40PM (#10336456)
Modern PHP code rarely uses the global namespace, so almost everyone who cares about correct handling of the new exceptions will have to prefix them with a backslash anyway.
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