This design of access globe name is bad, at least inconvenient.
In case that you have some legacy code, and try to copy and re-use it under some namespace. You have to add prefix "\" on any global function call.
    (PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)
   如果没有定义任何命名空间,所有的类与函数的定义都是在全局空间,与 
   PHP 引入命名空间概念前一样。在名称前加上前缀 \
   表示该名称是全局空间中的名称,即使该名称位于其它的命名空间中时也是如此。
   
Example #1 使用全局空间说明
<?php
namespace A\B\C;
/* 这个函数是 A\B\C\fopen */
function fopen() { 
     /* ... */
     $f = \fopen(...); // 调用全局的fopen函数
     return $f;
} 
?>
This design of access globe name is bad, at least inconvenient.
In case that you have some legacy code, and try to copy and re-use it under some namespace. You have to add prefix "\" on any global function call.
    
In namespaced context the Exception class needs to be prefixed with global prefix operator.
<?php
namespace hey\ho\lets\go;
class MyClass
{
    public function failToCatch()
    {
        try {
            $thing = somethingThrowingAnException();
        } catch (Exception $ex) {
              // Not catched
        }
    }
    public function succeedToCatch()
    {
        try {
            $thing = somethingThrowingAnException();
        } catch (\Exception $ex) {
              // This is now catched
        }
    }
}
    
That's the expected behavior, you have to declare the namespace at the top of the file to "extend" it. 
If you include a global namespaced file, it will operate on the global namespace.
    
Included files will default to the global namespace.
<?php
//test.php
namespace test {
  include 'test1.inc';
  echo '-',__NAMESPACE__,'-<br />';
}
?>
<?php
//test1.inc
  echo '-',__NAMESPACE__,'-<br />';
?>
Results of test.php:
--
-test-