On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 8:06 AM, Rowan Collins <rowan.coll...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 September 2017 14:15:43 BST, Ryan Pallas <derokor...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >I must be missing something, there is no autoloader shipped with PHP. > > Just to be pedantically correct, there actually is an implementation > shipped, see http://php.net/spl_autoload It's even the default if you > don't pass your own function to spl_autoload_register. > Almost 2 decades in PHP, and still so much I don't know haha. I will point out though, that according to a comment [1] it does not replace the underscores with slashes as mentioned, and I see no where in the code [2] that it does either. [1] http://php.net/manual/en/function.spl-autoload.php#98762 [2] https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/ext/spl/php_spl.c#L306 > > Nonetheless, you are quite right that Tony's complaint is nonsensical, > because he could implement whatever autoloader suited his directory > structure, if he wanted to - even a case insensitive one. > > It is true that autoloading isn't mandatory, but it's also a complete > straw man, because Sara already made the same point herself: > > > I don't feel as though that's true of ... > > projects where autoloaders > > aren't used (not a small number). > > Regards, > > -- > Rowan Collins > [IMSoP] >
