Hello Marcus, In my case at work, my include_path only has three directories: . (current directory), the PEAR path, and the directory where my company's classes are stored. In this case, the namespace import will only have to search in three directories, which is not bad. The class_path would only save me one directory lookup (.), so the class_path really is not needed here. Looking again, the need for class_path really depends on whether many PHP users have large include_paths or not. If the majority have small include_paths (like in our cases), then I can just use include_path (my patch would be simplified, also). Still, I'd like to gather more opinions from others.
Regarding __autoload, there is no way for __autoload to receive the full class name without having to first scan the directories either at compile or runtime, and of course, when I determine the full class name and path, why call __autoload? I already know the path of the file I need to include, so passing the class name to __autoload seems unnecessary. For the lookup, I was thinking of searching all the directories in the class/include_path, even if I get a match in the first directory. In the case where there are two identically-named classes in two namespaces that have been imported, then I will generate an error saying that the class requested is ambiguous. The way the user would disambiguate the class name is by entering the full class name, e.g. my_ns:class1, for that particular class. -- Jessie Marcus Boerger wrote: > might, might, might only assumptions with the big drawback of adding > another ini setting. My assumption is that i only need one or two > include/class patchs and that they are of course the same since i want to > keep my application files together - for working maintanance for one > reason. Also if __autoload cannot easily get the requested namespace name > than a compilcated solution has to be worked out since otherwise you end > up in nightmare of naming conflicts - how should you know in a situation > where a classname exists in multiple namespaces from which directory to > load? By order of directory? In the end nothing here would really work > around the problem thus we need the full name. > > Best regards, > Marcus mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
