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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 19:58:26 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Not autoloading functions
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 7:55 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > Since the autoloading functions proposal is stalled, how about allowing
> for
> > import of static functions instead?
> >
> >     use function Foo::bar;
> >
> >     bar(); // calls Foo::bar()
>
> I'm not sure why it is good. This would certainly be confusing, if you
> call strlen and turns out it's completely different function from what
> you thought. One thing when it's the same namespace, at least you can be
> aware what this package does, but if it's just an arbitrary function
> from anywhere, it's really bad for understanding the code.
>

How is that different from the already existing "use function foo\bar\baz
as strlen"?


> How hard is it to write Foo::bar? You never have to go more
> than one level. I don't see a point in mixing internal function
> namespace with class methods for the sake of saving typing couple of
> characters.
>
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> Stas Malyshev
> smalyshev@gmail.com
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