Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:15787 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 15658 invoked by uid 1010); 4 Apr 2005 07:40:39 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 15642 invoked from network); 4 Apr 2005 07:40:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Apr 2005 07:40:39 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.94.239.5 jdi.jdi-ict.nl Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([82.94.239.5:58192] helo=jdi.jdi-ict.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity HEAD r(5268)) with SMTP id C3/79-19272-67FE0524 for ; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 03:40:38 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j347fTYS031607 for ; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 09:41:29 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j347fPwB031578; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 09:41:25 +0200 Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 09:40:30 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: derick@localhost To: Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg cc: Andi Gutmans , Marcus Boerger , Zeev Suraski , internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <5.1.0.14.2.20050403125628.03f83de0@localhost> <5.1.0.14.2.20050403125628.03f83de0@localhost> <5.1.0.14.2.20050403085747.02857a90@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jci-ict.nl Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] __autoload() enhancement From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg wrote: > On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > > I don't think the right solution though is to leave the not-optimal > > solution in the engine, and create a solution outside the engine. I think > > we should find a way to tune the engine so that it works well. Zeev's > > suggestion keeps BC. If there are concerns as far as chaining order are > > concerned, I personally don't have a problem supplying an API function > > where functions can be added programmatically. > > We'd then get the best of both worlds and make it very accessible by everyone. > > FWIW, I don't think maintaining BC is super important here. I don't > believe lots of people are using __autoload() currently, and it should > be pretty trivial to migrate to whatever solution we end up with. BC is always important. Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org