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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Function/Constant autoloading
From: sebastian.krebs.berlin@googlemail.com (Sebastian Krebs)

Hi,

Thanks for your reply

Am 26.07.2011 10:35, schrieb Nathaniel Catchpole:
> There is lazy loading for functions via apc.lazy_functions (although I've
> not properly tested this yet). That doesn't require any userspace code
> changes.

As far as I can see this is for built-in functions only. The problem I 
see is, that APC cannot know, where my functions are located and 
therefore cannot load it without userspace help.

>
> For define() I'm not aware of anything allowing for lazy loading constants
> (define() is just a function call).
>
> However there are a few approaches for avoiding define(), you could look at
> apc_define_constants(), http://pecl.php.net/package/hidef and
> http://pecl.php.net/package/chdb, you could also switch to class constants
> and lazy load your classes.

Maybe my description were a little bit misleading: I was talking about 
especially namespace constant like


namespace my\ns;
const FOO = 'BAR';


I know I can use class constants instead (as well as I can use static 
methods instead of functions), but that makes me feel, that functions 
and namespace constants are more or less useless now.

>
> I haven't
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Sebastian Krebs<
> sebastian.krebs.berlin@googlemail.com>  wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
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