Re: [PHP-DEV] [Concept] Flip relative function lookup order (global, then local)

[Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]]

On Fri, 2024-08-02 at 18:53 +0100, Rowan Tommins [IMSoP] wrote:

> There was a proposal for exactly this a few years ago, which ended up
> in an RFC with a slightly different syntax (using a declare()
> statement), but was declined in voting by 35 votes to 2.

Sorry, I forgot the link: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/use_global_elements



On 2 August 2024 19:46:03 BST, Nick Lockheart <li...@ageofdream.com> wrote:

>In all likelihood, it was the syntax that was disfavored.

There was a lot of discussion beforehand about the syntax, and the RFC attempts 
to summarise some of it, but skimming through the voting thread 
<https://externals.io/message/108306> I don't think that was what made it fail. 
The objections seem to be mostly about the general approach, not the details. 


Rowan Tommins
[IMSoP]