[RFC] Function Autoloading (mark 5)

Hey Paul,

Hi all,

This is (by my count) a 5th attempt at adding function autoloading to PHP.

• RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/function-autoloading-five-oh
• PR: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/22337

Looking forward to the discussion around this one!

-- pmj

What is the motivation to not do a second call to the function
autoloaders with "bar" (global namespace) when "bar()" is being called
in the Foo namespace and the initial call with "Foo\bar" doesn't resolve
to anything?

That would probably have much less rough edges, completely sidestepping
the issue here with Foo\bar() not being found.

Thanks,
Bob

Hi all,

This is (by my count) a 5th attempt at adding function autoloading to PHP.

• RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/function-autoloading-five-oh
• PR: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/22337

Looking forward to the discussion around this one!

-- pmj

I assume you saw my last attempt at this? :)

The general consensus was that spl autoloader needs to go and nobody wanted to see more added to it. That being said, maybe the list has changed its mind... hopefully.

— Rob

Hi all,

This is (by my count) a 5th attempt at adding function autoloading to PHP.

• RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/function-autoloading-five-oh
• PR: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/22337

Looking forward to the discussion around this one!

-- pmj

Hi Paul!

To make unqualified calls to strlen() resolve to Foo\strlen() inside the Foo namespace, you must import the fully qualified function first

Imagine we have an old guzzle/psr7 with stream_for function, and they
use it without a qualifier. I defined a global stream_for so now I
hijacked the internal library logic. Is it correct?

The previous attempt with namespace pinning made more sense to me

--
Anton