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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] reload() in Python, Possible in PHP?
From: jon@php.net (Jon Parise)

On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 03:57:22PM -0500, Andrew Heebner wrote:

> AFAIK, Python supports the reload() method, which lets you dynamically 
> control includes while a script is running.

This is conceptually easier to implement in Python because a module is
its own namespace.  In PHP, the "stuff" that is included from another
file has no such common organization.
 
> In PHP, even workarounds are tough to create reloadable modules for 
> scripts, so, what other means are there to reload includes, and 
> redeclare functions?

If it's not already safe to include() your file multiple times, I
don't think adding a reload() function to PHP is going to improve your
situation all that much.  The engine would have to do a fair amount of
work to figure out how to "reload" the contents of the external
script.

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