Pushing to internals list. On 5 November 2012 20:41, Levi Morrison <morrison.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > I hear people complaining about this out in user-land all the time, but > I've never seen anyone from internals respond. With practically everyone > using an autoloader these days, it really borks your workflow to use > `require_once` just to load a function. > > So why don't we call `spl_autoload` for undefined functions? Are there > technical reasons, or has this not been discussed?
IIRC correctly, one strong point for autoloading classes catching on was because of the existing one-class-per-file practice; folks were already having files named after a class and only containing said class. The same never really caught on for individual functions. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
