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Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 17:26:10 +0200
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To: georges <geolim4@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: spl_autoload_register() should provide kind of
 entity to load
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 4:24 PM, georges <geolim4@gmail.com> wrote:

> =E2=80=8BHi php internals,
>
> Currently spl_autoload_register() pass the name of the class entity to th=
e
> first *Callable* argument=E2=80=8B, but there is now way (as i far i know=
) to know
> what kind of entity we're looking for.
> -Class ?
> -Interface ?
> -Trait?
>
>
> A second argument should be added to the *Callable* function describing
> what kind of entity we're looking for.
>

This is not possible, because we do not generally know if something is a
class or an interface or a trait when autoloading it. E.g. if I write
class_alias('X', 'Y') and X is autoloaded, it could be a class an interface
or a trait - it just doesn't matter.

Nikita

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