Re: Not autoloading functions

> On Jan 20, 2017, at 01:04, Rasmus Schultz <rasmus@mindplay.dk> wrote: > > 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() > ... > 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? :-) I find this intuitively appealing. It's an incremental change with tangible benefit in an imaginable timeframe, as vs a dramatic change in an unknowable timeframe. However, I am not an internals expert, so I'll leave it to them to say how big a deal it would be to implement, and what the drawbacks are. -- Paul M. Jones pmjones88@gmail.com http://paul-m-jones.com Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP https://leanpub.com/mlaphp Solving the N+1 Problem in PHP https://leanpub.com/sn1php