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

[email protected] (Tim Düsterhus) Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:12:01 +0200
Newsgroups php.internals
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Hi

On 2026-07-15 20:35, Paul M. Jones wrote:
> The RFC has been updated to un-incorporate the strict-namespace 
> elements; if there are no further substantive comments, I would like to 
> open the vote in 2-ish weeks.

To put my remark in the (canceled) voting thread into the correct place, 
quoting myself from https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/132151:

> Without giving it detailed thought, I believe “Namespaced function, 
> Autoload namespaced function, Global fallback” (i.e. swap steps 2 and 
> 3) would result in much more predictable semantics already - the global 
> fallback would work just as before, it just wouldn't have autoloading 
> support. It's quite possible I'm changing my mind on that as well when 
> I think more about it […]

Best regards
Tim Düsterhus