Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Function Autoloading (mark 5)

Hi

On 2026-07-07 18:45, Paul M. Jones wrote:
> I have updated the RFC and PR to add the `strict_namespace=1` directive 
> as a way of solving for the global-fallback shadow-function case.

I believe the `strict_namespace=1` directive is a sufficiently unrelated 
concern - with enormous bikeshedding potential on its own [1], but also 
sufficient usefulness on its own - such that I feel it should be its own 
RFC that is a prerequisite to this one. It should not be piggy-backed 
onto function autoloading.

In particular the autoloading gotcha will remain (no autoloading if a 
matching function exists), unless the user remembers to set the declare, 
which isn't much better than the original proposal.

Best regards
Tim Düsterhus

[1] e.g. do we want to bundle this with a deprecation