Re: Idea: Function autoloading using dummy namespaces

Hi! > How about an alternative approach where a function inside a namespace > can be autoloaded using the existing callback, by using a reserved > namespace segment? So to autoload function "foo\bar()", the engine would > construct a string like "__function\foo\bar" or "foo\__function\bar", > and pass that to the registered autoloader stack. Magic out-of-domain values usually are bad design, and lead to a lot of trouble since now the system needs to deal with two sets of assumptions instead of one. I wouldn't recommend doing it. -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com