Re: [RFC] New core autoloading mechanism with support for function autoloading
| From: | Kamil Tekiela | Date: | Tue, 11 Apr 2023 12:30:26 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] New core autoloading mechanism with support for function autoloading | ||
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> We have the special constants like \MyNamespace\MyClass::class. Would
> you envisage (or is there value in) equivalent constants like
> \MyNamespace\MyFunction::function?
>
If anything, I would suggest renaming the existing constant to something
more meaningful. There is no point in adding ::function because that would
just be an additional confusing alias for the same thing. Doing
strpos::class works just fine, but is semantically incorrect.