Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC Draft - Improved Autoloading

On 7.07.2026 05:06, Michael Morris wrote:
> PHP will also call the autoloader when it encounters the namespace 
> keyword referencing a namespace it hasn't seen before. Hence
> 
> ```
> namespace B;
> ```
> This will result in a call to the autoloader with arguments (null, "B")

you (and the current implementation's) callback defines 1st argument as 
string. Changing it to accept null will be a big BC break you missed. 
Maybe an empty string would solve that.

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