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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Function auto-loading
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 08/08/2016 17:00, Levi Morrison wrote:
>     I think saying "add a backslash in front of your function names to
>     avoid them being slow" will just lead to lots of "lol wtf php sux".
>
>
> They'll say the same when function and class autoloading don't work the
> same way anyway. I think unifying their behavior over time is the best
> solution forward. Yes, I'm talking about a BC break eventually, but the
> suggestion to autoload only fully qualified function names could buy us
> the time to make that BC break less severe.


Do you mean eventually changing the name resolution rules for functions 
to match those for classes? I wasn't around at the time it was 
discussed, and if we were adding them now would be tempted to say the 
leading \ should always be mandatory, just like it is for classes. But 
since we have what we have, I don't see that big an advantage to 
changing it.

If not, I don't see why we ever need to be able to autoload global 
functions. "You want autoloading? Put it in a namespace." Like I say, 
that leaves the very small edge case of a single namespace spanning 
multiple files, and an autoloader implementation able to include one of 
them when a function is called from another.

Regards,
-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]