On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Will Fitch <will.fi...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... > I have to say, I've never heard the argument, "man, if there's one > thing I'd like to standardize in PHP, it'd definitely be autoloading > classes." No, indeed I believe this is a group of frameworks trying > to implement a standard into PHP that will help them all stay on the > same page. >...
As a UserLand developer. Building a new project and using libraries from various different packages is a pain, as you need to worry about the autoloading of each. The push for PSR-0 has solved this, or at least gives all library developers a heading so that new libraries that are now PSR compliant , simply allow me to drop it in a folder and at most define a rule that "\Such\Namespace" => "vendor/" This makes life as a PHP developer much easier and having the standard "valued" by PHP by having a SplClassLoader that allows any library to not need to implement a autolaoder if no framework is present allows for much nicer "plug and play" interaction of libraries, less work for their developers and even less for the users. I'm a UG leader and i work a lot on Hackathons and pet projects, my own and guiding other people's and this is the kind of feedback i get, not having to worry about autoloading by simply having everyone follow a common structure is a very good outcome of the standards push. To me this goes much further the the "framework developer" and reaches the common developer. And i for one think the developer is a very important part of PHP and should be valued. -- Rafael Dohms PHP Evangelist and Community Leader http://www.rafaeldohms.com.br http://www.phpsp.org.br -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
