Re: Discussion Short Constructor

Hi all, > On Jul 16, 2025, at 11:40, Deleu <deleugyn@gmail.com> wrote: ... > The blessing and the curse of PSR-4 is that it spoiled us (or maybe just me?) to: > > - never think about require/include > - never think about composer.json > - never think about how classes/interfaces/traits are located > - IDEs will auto-import stuff so I don't even need to think about > use statement > - I don't know how to debug "Class not found" issues because the last time I saw > an error like this was 5 years ago when I was trying to mess up with custom autoload capabilities in > order to declare multiple symbols in a single file. As the lead on PSR-4, I appreciate (and am sympathetic to) this list, as well as the pros & cons of one-class-per-file (which originated with PSR-0 and the Horde/PEAR standards before it). > Maybe I'm alone in it and then it's fine for it to be just my problem. I'm > sharing here in case it's also someone else's problem and we can do something about it. > But please don't tell me it's not a real problem. You're not alone; I hear similar stories from time to time. Larry may be many things, but he's definitely not the final authority on what is and is not a "real problem." I am open to developing an extension of, or alternative to, PSR-4 autoloading that would allow for multiple-classes-per-file; please contact me off-list if you're interested in pursuing that idea. -- pmj