Re: [RFC] Function autoloading through spl_autoload*

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > Hi! > > On 8/15/11 12:54 AM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: >> >> I know that the bad decisions in the past won't count in this >> argument, but the current "namespace resolution falls back to the >> global namespace" is the one to blame for this shortcoming. > > It's not a shortcoming, it was designed that way, and for very serious > reasons. it depends on what do you mean by designed, it was brought up after the namespace support was implemented, and the namespace separator debate closed AFAIK. > If you want to know the reasons, there were discussed extensively > when namespaces were discussed. Please re-read that discussion. And all > things you propose now were already discussed back then too. If you hope > people would write \strlen instead of strlen, this discussion is pointless > because it won't happen. if somebody don't have the links, here they are: http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg39829.html http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg39577.html https://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespaceresolution -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu