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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Function autoloading through spl_autoload*
From: nikita.ppv@googlemail.com (Nikita Popov)

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:
> I understand the proposal, but I don't see any compelling reasons in the
> RFC of why we actually need autoloading for functions? For classes it
> makes sense because there is almost always a class to file mapping. For
> functions (and constants) that is not the case, so I am wondering how
> useful this function autoloading actually is.

As Sebastian already mentioned, if all functions in a namespace are
grouped into one file, it would be simple to load that file using such
a concept.