Re: RFC Proposal - static modifier for classes

On Thu, 23 Nov 2023 at 06:00, Stephen Reay <php-lists@koalephant.com> wrote: > I'm disappointed to see yet again that there's this implied notion that > working with PHP in 2023 means "well surely you must be using composer", > which leads to "but composer..." somehow being an accepted argument when > it comes to missing/incomplete builtin functionality. > While I appreciate your point in the general case, in this particular thread, the mentions of Composer are really just examples, or can be reworded that way: Functions lack autoloading, but in practice this isn't a big problem because you can just require_once a file defining them, and as long as OpCache is running there's very little performance penalty. If you're using a package manager or module loading system to integrate multiple autoloaders, it's generally easy to add one or more required files as part of the package / module config - *for example* Composer has a "files" array in each package's "autoload" config. So the actual assumption is "surely you must be using OpCache", which unlike Composer is bundled with PHP. Regards, -- Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]