RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] Why isn't `spl_autoload` called for functions?

> De : sebastian.krebs.berlin@gmail.com > > I hope you find more support on this than I had. Technically > speaking, > > it would be easy to extend autoloading to functions and constants. It > > can even be done without BC breaks, combining 'old-style' and 'new- > style' > > autoloaders without ambiguity (adding a second argument to the > > autoload hook, and checking the number of args declared by the > function). > > > > Thats not even required, if you fixate (--> default value) the second > parameter to "class" all existing loaders will behave, like they did > before. Correct, but that's not enough to preserve BC. OK, giving a default value of 'class' to the second arg allows using a 'new-style' autoloader with an 'old-style' PHP engine. But, now consider the opposite, using a 'new-style' PHP engine, with autoloading extended to functions and constants, with one or more 'old-style' autoloaders: when the engine needs to autoload a function or a constant, we must not call any 'old-style' autoloader, as it would take the symbol and attempt to load a class by that name. And the easiest way to decide if an autoloader is a new or old-style one is to check if the autoload handler func is declared with one or two args. François