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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 17:55:38 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Function auto-loading
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 08/08/2016 17:23, Niklas Keller wrote:
> Loading only full qualified names will lead to strange bugs.

The suggestion is to require *qualified* names (at least one \ in the 
call), not to require *fully qualified* names (leading \ and full 
namespace path). Function name resolution already requires that to 
reference anything other than a global function, or the exact current 
namespace.

The only scheme I can think of where it would matter is 
one-function-per-file, like Smarty's plugin loader.

# file foo.php
namespace Acme\Plugins;
function foo() { echo 'Hello world'; }

# file bar.php
namespace Acme\Plugins;
function bar() { foo(); } # will not autoload


Compared to "hundreds of lines of existing code will go slowly unless 
you liberally sprinkle with \", having to remind people not to do that 
seems like a small price to pay.


Regards,
-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]