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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 13:18:38 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][DISCUSSION] Deprecation of fallback to root scope
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

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On 5 February 2018 at 12:54, Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 1:52 PM, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> None of these options is particularly appealing, and this will all be for
>> a
>> hypothetical future improvement to the language.
>>
>
> Would proposing a function autoloading RFC together with this improve the
> situation?
>

I think it would, firstly because it gives a visible benefit to the change
we would be asking users to make, and secondly because it allows a shim
like the example in the RFC to be used immediately as a transition.

As I mentioned in an aside previously, it would also make an opt-in
statement more reasonable, because saying "namespace Foo\Bar with autoload"
could both turn off the fallback lookup and turn on autoloading functions
in the current namespace. Fully-qualified function names could be
autoloaded in both modes, and presumably functions explicitly imported with
"use" could be too.

Regards,
-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]

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