Re: [DRAFT] [RFC] Function autoloading

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Johannes Schlüter <johannes@schlueters.de> wrote: > On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 10:49 +0200, Julien Pauli wrote: >> Just to say : one benefit of this work would be to finally have autoload >> functionnality (which is a Core feature IMO) included in Zend/ and no more >> in an extension. > > What is the benefit, except having more stuff in the engine? SPL is part > of the core. Let's not pack the engine with stuff not needed there. Can we stop this madness of considering SPL as non standard or as a 'let put everything we don't know in there' extension? It was created to provided some standard advanced functions or structures. SPL was then used to work around some of the limitation of the engine, or add features not desired by some of the core devs, because no compromise was found. This must end, either it is needed and should be in the engine, or it is not and can go in pecl. SPL is standard, and always enabled. It should not continue to become a 2nd layer to the engine but to provide advanced features like what it initially did. -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org