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

Hi Tim,


> On Jul 13, 2026, at 13:04, Tim Düsterhus <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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.

I'm good with that. I'll prepare a separate RFC and remove that from the function-autoloading one.


> 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.

In fairness, that particular gotcha looks to be very rare among the top 1000 packages -- the principle remains, but in practice it appears almost nonexistent.


-- pmj