Declare ProcessWire namespace but keep v2 compatability

[Robin S]

Without declaring the ProcessWire namespace at the top of a module file I don't get the benefit of code completion and warnings in my IDE (or rather I get a bunch of false-positive warnings without a namespace declared). So I'd like to declare it, but if I understand right this will make the module incompatible with PW 2.x. It would be great to be able to conditionally declare the namespace according to the PW version but that's not possible unfortunately.

I suppose I could declare the namespace and comment it out just before pushing to GitHub, but it would be easy to forget.

Any tips? Does anyone know if there's a way to indicate the namespace in a DocBlock comment so PhpStorm picks it up but it isn't an actual namespace declaration?

[LostKobrakai]

If you want to stay compatible with the 2.x branch I'd simply develop on a 2.8 or even 2.7 installation. 

[Robin S]

21 minutes ago, LostKobrakai said:

If you want to stay compatible with the 2.x branch I'd simply develop on a 2.8 or even 2.7 installation.

Good idea, thanks.