Re: [RFC] Strict Namespace Resolution

On 15 July 2026 16:54:04 BST, Ilija Tovilo <tovilo.ilija@gmail.com> wrote: >This flag forces the use of a \ prefix, but it's worth noting there are some communities >(e.g. Laravel and Symfony) who have explicitly rejected the idea of prefixing all functions for >readability reasons. I know it won't change anyone's mind, but for the record, I've always found this baffling. Adding a single punctuation mark next to function calls seems far more readable to me than having a huge block of "use function" lines at the top of every file. The often-suggested "scalar methods" would add more punctuation than moving to "no global fallback" - "\strlen($foo)" vs "$foo->length()". Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]