diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/ClassLoader/ClassCollectionLoader.php b/src/Symfony/Component/ClassLoader/ClassCollectionLoader.php
index 88bd500f1d..6fdd0a4b6b 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/ClassLoader/ClassCollectionLoader.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/ClassLoader/ClassCollectionLoader.php
@@ -137,8 +137,8 @@ class ClassCollectionLoader
     public static function fixNamespaceDeclarations($source)
     {
         if (!function_exists('token_get_all') || !self::$useTokenizer) {
-            if (preg_match('/namespace(.*?)\s*;/', $source)) {
-                $source = preg_replace('/namespace(.*?)\s*;/', "namespace$1\n{", $source)."}\n";
+            if (preg_match('/(^|\s)namespace(.*?)\s*;/', $source)) {
+                $source = preg_replace('/(^|\s)namespace(.*?)\s*;/', "$1namespace$2\n{", $source)."}\n";
             }
 
             return $source;
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/ClassLoader/Tests/ClassCollectionLoaderTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/ClassLoader/Tests/ClassCollectionLoaderTest.php
index 2d78941538..5019f26ee8 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/ClassLoader/Tests/ClassCollectionLoaderTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/ClassLoader/Tests/ClassCollectionLoaderTest.php
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ class ClassCollectionLoaderTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
             array("namespace   Bar ;\nclass Foo {}\n", "namespace   Bar\n{\nclass Foo {}\n}\n"),
             array("namespace Foo\Bar;\nclass Foo {}\n", "namespace Foo\Bar\n{\nclass Foo {}\n}\n"),
             array("namespace Foo\Bar\Bar\n{\nclass Foo {}\n}\n", "namespace Foo\Bar\Bar\n{\nclass Foo {}\n}\n"),
-            array("namespace\n{\nclass Foo {}\n}\n", "namespace\n{\nclass Foo {}\n}\n"),
+            array("\nnamespace\n{\nclass Foo {}\n\$namespace=123;}\n", "\nnamespace\n{\nclass Foo {}\n\$namespace=123;}\n"),
         );
     }