Re: New escaped output operator

> On 19 Jun 2016, at 7:57 PM, Rasmus Schultz <rasmus@mindplay.dk> wrote: > > I am well familiar with this approach, and it does not scale - not > only would you be aggressively loading every installed view-helper > anytime you render a view, you would even be loading them when you're > *not* rendering a view. > > I'm afraid the best we could do at this point, without changing the > language, is a establish a convention for autoloading functions > (and/or namespaces of functions) from files, based on static analysis > of template files. > > But that is pretty complex - on the organizational side, it requires > developers to agree on and adopt a convention, and on the technical > side, you need static analysis and thereby most likely a cache layer > as well. > > It's all possible, but most people aren't going to put up with this > much complexity for something this simple. > > Hmm. What if we could import static methods into file scope and use > them as functions? > > use My\Namespace::my_function; > > my_function(); // <-- effectively My\Namespace::my_function() > > This would leverage auto-loading at least... I mean, it's still > effectively just abusing classes as pseudo-namespaces, so there is > that - but it would work with e.g. Composer right away, and probably > with many existing static classes? > > Yeah, it's still ugly... > > Ugly, but brilliant! +1 David