Re: Function auto-loading

On 07/08/16 12:19, Rasmus Schultz wrote: > Being basically unable to ship or consume purely functional packages leaves > the functional side of the language largely an unused historical artifact, > which is sad. Keeping things functional and stateless often lead to more > predictable and obvious code - I think the absence of good support for > functions encourages a lot of over-engineering, e.g. developers > automatically making everything a class, not as a design choice, for the > sole reason of being able to ship and reuse what should be simple functions. I can understand a little the overwhelming desire to wrap everything in it's own set of name spaces, but is that REALLY essential to make PHP 'work better'. What is wrong with a simple 'include_once' of the library you want to use globally across all the code? I have a set of legacy libraries who's function is not going to change any time soon which works just the same on old setup's as it does on PHP7. And I see no reason to even bother with namespace's ... they simply make a lot of mess for no apparent gain! Where I could see a gain is if those libraries were simply additional extensions pre-loaded into the engine rather than something which needs 'auto-loading' at all. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk