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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 09:50:29 -0600
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?
From: derokorian@gmail.com (Ryan Pallas)

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On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 8:06 AM, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 13 September 2017 14:15:43 BST, Ryan Pallas <derokorian@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >I must be missing something, there is no autoloader shipped with PHP.
>
> Just to be pedantically correct, there actually is an implementation
> shipped, see http://php.net/spl_autoload It's even the default if you
> don't pass your own function to spl_autoload_register.
>

Almost 2 decades in PHP, and still so much I don't know haha. I will point
out though, that according to a comment [1] it does not replace the
underscores with slashes as mentioned, and I see no where in the code [2]
that it does either.

[1] http://php.net/manual/en/function.spl-autoload.php#98762
[2] https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/ext/spl/php_spl.c#L306


>
> Nonetheless, you are quite right that Tony's complaint is nonsensical,
> because he could implement whatever autoloader suited his directory
> structure, if he wanted to - even a case insensitive one.
>
> It is true that autoloading isn't mandatory, but it's also a complete
> straw man, because Sara already made the same point herself:
>
> > I don't feel as though that's true of ...
> > projects where autoloaders
> > aren't used (not a small number).
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Rowan Collins
> [IMSoP]
>

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