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Subject: Function/Constant autoloading
From: sebastian.krebs.berlin@googlemail.com (Sebastian Krebs)

Hi,

Maybe this topic occured already, then sorry when I'm wasting your time, 
but I'm wondering, why there is no autoloading for functions and 
(namespace)constants.

When a class is not found, then an userland function is called. Thus I 
don't see a reason, why something like this doesn't exists for functions 
and (namespace)constants too, because using them is quite uncomfortable 
right now compared to classes and the decision _how_ to load them would 
be on the developers-side anyway.

Sebastian Krebs