Re: Autoloading functions/consts without a performance impact

> If the call to foo() is simply treated equivalently to a call to A::foo(), > then this may have some quite surprising behavior: > > If A::foo() is an instance method, then this call to foo() will inherit $this, > which is something that normally does not happen with free-standing function calls. > Possibly this would need a new call type that enforces that the method is actually static? I do like this approach. A new call opcode would make sense for that. It won't help for internal functions or their polyfills such as mb_strlen(), etc., so autoloading functions would still make some sense if that approach was taken.