Not autoloading functions

Just a quick thought. Since the autoloading functions proposal is stalled, how about allowing for import of static functions instead? use function Foo::bar; bar(); // calls Foo::bar() There are two benefits to this approach: 1. There is immediate support for autoloading without any need for adoption or support in existing autoloaders. 2. Pseudo-namespaces (abstract classes with stateless static functions) are already widely practiced in PHP - a lot of existing code would be supported as is. The syntax when calling functions would be the same. If we had function autoloading, we would likely collect related functions in a file anyway - putting them in a class instead gives more less the same exact result. The only drawback I can see, is the inability to import a whole set of functions with one statement - but being explicit about external imports is widely considered best practice for classes and interfaces, so why not for functions. Yeah, it's a bit inconvenient, but at least we can move ahead and leverage existing code without changes or BC breaks. It's not all bad. It's better than nothing perhaps? :-) Thoughts?