On 23.08.2024 at 13:52, Mike Schinkel wrote: > In theory it would be nice to open up PHP to allow overriding core functions, > but that could also open a Pandora's box, the kind that makes Ruby code so > fragile. At least in Go you have to omit the standard lib import and use your > own import to override a standard library package. > > So in practice PHP may never change to allow core functions to be overridden > and thus pining for that to block this idea would be a missed opportunity. > (That said, PHP could allow a userland function to be "registered" to be > called instead of the core function, and if that were allowed then Nick's > proposal would cause no problems. Of course I doubt internals would ever > bless that idea.)
There are already PECL extensions which allow to do this, e.g. * <https://pecl.php.net/runkit7> * <https://pecl.php.net/package/uopz> And I'd leave it at this. Christoph
