Re: [RFC] Importing namespaced functions

Hi Yasuo, Monkey patching could be a very useful feature, especially for functions in a testing context. But I agree with Stas that it's not really related to importing function/class symbols. Perhaps you should create a separate RFC for it. On Jul 24, 2013, at 7:28 AM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote: > RunKit is nice, but it's not a standard module and I suppose it will > not be standard. > > This might be a poor example of usefulness of overriding existing > class/method, but proposed feature may be used for monkey patch > for instance. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_patch > > There are issues as discussed in Wiki. So not having such > feature is valid option, but it's nice to have feature. Make strlen() > return number of chars instead of bytes, etc. > > I don't have concrete idea right now. If there is cleaver way that > avoids disadvantages, I would like to see such feature by default > since almost all PHP competitors have this. > > Any ideas that satisfy most of us?