Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Strict Namespace Resolution

Hi Ilija,

> On Jul 15, 2026, at 12:57, Ilija Tovilo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Paul
> On 15.07.26 19:48, Paul M. Jones wrote:
>> Hi Ilia,
> I normally don't correct people on my name, but just to avoid confusion: We now have myself and Ilia Alshanetsky being active again. Just want to point out that we're two different people.

/me grimaces

You are right to correct me. It was a typo on my part; I apologize for failing to catch it before sending.


> the value-add of this declaration is very small if the plan isn't ever to deprecate/remove the old behavior.

I can see why some might think that; even so, it is still a valuable addition (however small) even if the old behavior is never removed, in the same way that strict_types is valuable even though the old behavior has not been removed.

Further, note that this is an extraction from the function-autoloading RFC; its origin there was due to the shadow-global problem which (thankfully) turns out to be relatively rare. In those rare cases, this directive becomes an option to mitigate the situation.


-- pmj