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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:10:12 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] Namespace Patch, Alpha 3
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Alex,

Tuesday, July 26, 2005, 11:54:02 PM, you wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 10:10 +0200, Marcus Boerger wrote:
>> > I still think the namespace import behavior should be separate from the
>> > __autoload function. Of course, this is just me. What does everyone else
>> > think? I'd like to gather opinions on which is preferred. I will also like
>> > to know if a separate class_path is preferred (as I have in my last patch)
>> > or if just leaving include_path is what most prefer.
>> 
>> None of the above makes any sense. Look __autoload() is just bein called at
>> any place where a class is missing. So looking for the file first and then
>> loading __autoload(I) makes no sense whatsoever. IMO what we need here is a
>> default implementation for import behavior accomplished by __autoload(). So
>> for example "import ns:cls;" leads to "__autoload('ns:cls')". Here the SPL
>> default implementation would relpace all ':' with the directory divider '/'
>> or '\', append '.inc' or '.php' or '.inc.php' and append the result to all
>> directories in the include_path to look for the file. If were are to support
>> import with '*' the the autoload implementation would need to take care of
>> this and load all matching files. A user land implementation can easily
>> achieve that by using SPLs (Recursive)DirectoryIterator and FilterIterator.

> What are the options when having a PHP without SPL, then? That
> __autoload invocation chain once in discussion hasn't yet been
> implemented, right?

The only differences would be that there won't be a fallback and that you
won't be able to have more than one __autoload function. And SPL's
implemenetation is that chain.

Best regards,
 Marcus