Re: RE: __init magic method

On 01/22/2013 07:20 PM, Dmitri Ravazin wrote: > hey, here's an idea. Let's drop class autoloading 'magic' as well, > because it has all the same 'problems' that you've just described. > It loads things at 'completely arbitrary' times, it's complicated, and > it surely makes reading code 'too hard'. And the gains are 'very > little', anyway. > You can always load your classes manually with a bunch of require > statements, right? It is trickier than autoloading because __init() tries to blur the lines between the compile and execute stages if I read your original email correctly. And we have some magic in the compiler that tries to optimize things and resolve as much of the inheritance chain as possible at compile-time to the point where ZEND_FETCH_CLASS opcodes are NOP'ed away(*). I suppose this could still hang off of the the initial ZEND_FETCH_CLASS for a class, but it would definitely get tricky to determine when this would happen. (*) http://lxr.php.net/xref/PHP_5_4/Zend/zend_compile.c#4444 -Rasmus