On Tue, Oct 1, 2024, at 4:02 PM, Nick Lockheart wrote: >> >> Hey Nick, >> >> Is this actually an issue though? \Directory would be a weird thing >> to autoload. Most people tend to autoload specific namespaces. I >> think it would be weird to autoload into the global namespace. >> >> Maybe I am wrong, and that is why I ask. >> >> — Rob > > > In a situation where people aren't using namespaces at all, it would be > normal to create your own class with a conflicting name, not knowing > there was a built-in.
Which is why anyone creating a global namespace class, especially with a generic name like that, in 2024 is Doing PHP Wrong(tm). The top-level namespace has been considered "reserved" (at least de facto, if perhaps not sung from the rooftops) for... 15 years? Maybe not as long as there have been namespaces, but close to. I have no strong opinions on this RFC as I've not paid close attention to it, but "we can't introduce an unnamespaced class, that's a BC break" is simply not true, and not consistent with how Internals and the stdlib are and have been developed. --Larry Garfield
