Re: Function auto-loading

On 09/08/2016 17:05, Rasmus Schultz wrote:

I'm suggesting the use-statement be the trigger, rather than actually calling the function. In other words, calls to substr() does not trigger the resolve - a statement like "use function substr" on the other hand, does.

Ah, I see. The problem with that is, you still have to explicitly list every function you're going to use, so you might as well just use require_once, or call "load_function('substr')" directly.

I think, in practice, it's not going to work much differently from the other proposed work-around though - if only qualified references trigger auto-loading, then this would trigger auto-loading:

    \foo\bar();

And this would too:

    use foo\bar;

    bar();

But this would not:

    bar();

Yep, that's about the size of it. If I could go back and time and join the discussion at the time of PHP 6 / PHP 5.3, I'd argue for simplifying the name resolution, so the last one was either always the current namespace or always a global name. Pass me that faster-than-light telephone... ;) Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]