Ryan Panning wrote: > Jochem Maas wrote: >> essentially it boils down to replacing '::' with '/' to determine the >> path >> from the namespace in your case - that is easy enough, your still >> stuck with >> finding out whether your being asked to load a namespace, class, or >> function >> (do namespaced functions even trigger an autoload, if not that >> obviously makes >> things simpler. maybe the autoloader can just match the path as deep >> it can and >> then load every file inside the determine path. e.g: > > From my testing I've found the autoload function is called for any > namespace related call, functions and constants. > > Your idea for replacing '::' with '/' is good but I'd think it'll > interfere with the arithmetic operator '/'. I'm sure they must have > discussed such options. He didn't mean doing that in the code syntax, just in the autoload function to convert it to a filename :) > Is this something I should bring up on the internals? I think it is an > issue, autoload not being able to know if it's class or namespace related. > > However, I think the call for namespace functions and constants is good, > just need to know it's for namespaces... Gives you the opportunity to > load the missing files. If you look in the list archives there is a very thorough and detailed writeup from Martin Alterisio just after xmas on this topic: http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=119864555003877&w=2 This will perhaps make you think about discussing on internals. Col -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
