Re: Re: [RFC] "use global functions/consts" statement

> On Jan 1, 2020, at 11:31 PM, Mark Randall <marandall@php.net> wrote: > In future, I think the optimal solution is opt-in deprecating fallback to the root namespace > using a declare. We might eventually benefit from versioned "libraries" of functions that > can be imported in one command which would solve many-a-future-problem by itself. +1 to that. Especially if there is a mechanism to define functions from other people's code to be included in those "libraries", such as the functions in the WordPress API. > Id like to see nikic/scalar_objects added to the core in 8.0, that would offer non-procedural > (and therefore non-namespaced) access to many of the most common global functions (strings, arrays > etc). In turn, that would allow developers to limit the number of use \... statements. And +1000 to that! -Mike