On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Tony Marston <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > > "Eddie Drapkin" <oorza2k5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message > news:68de37340905280801m6964d355l2d6d8ef773f3bc4f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > There's a huge difference between laziness and opting in to use an > > incredibly useful (and easy to properly deploy) feature to save myself > > time > > so that I can spend more time writing that structured and efficient code > > of > > which you speak. And the problem with what you're saying is that you > > still > > have to include 'singleton.php' somewhere in order to call its static > > methods, > > I have a single general purpose include file which autmatically includes > all > other standard files, so I never have to explicity load my singleton class. > > > and I'd rather just spend 30 minutes writing an autoloader object > > and letting it deal with finding any of the classes I use then trying to > > keep track of legacy code I didn't write and require'ing them all over > the > > place. > > I'd rather not waste 30 minutes of my time writing a feature that I don't > need. > > The difference between using and not using the autoload feature does not > have any measurable impact on either my development times, nor the > execution > of my code, so I choose to not use it. That's my choice, and I'm sticking > to > it. > > > The way I look at it, if you spend all your time handling things that you > > could automate - and if written properly, will always work as expected > > (it's > > called unit testing and debugging) - then you have no time to write that > > structured and efficient code in order to meet your deadlines! :) > > Not using autoload does not have any noticeable effect on my deadlines, so > I > have no incentive to use it. Just because you say that I *should* use it > carries no weight at all. this simple fact is that autoloading is something anyone can implement themselves. take a look at code igniters $this->load() arrangement. basically they do dynamic loading rather than requires, and thats part of the reason for the massive performance advantage it has over other frameworks. autoloading is nice because it affords a somewhat standard approach to a common issue. sure, you could do something like ci, but i say why bother, why not just use __autoload() and freinds now that php offers it as a feature. then again, if you already have some dynamic loading system, of course theres no real call to move to __autoload(). (and of course ci is written w/ php4 support in mind, which obviously eliminates __autoload in their scenario) im also skeptical of the advantages dynamic loading offers in systems running an opcode cache. essentially after initially caching a scripts opcodes, successive include/require calls are a hit to the cache to see its already there. im sure dynamic loading is offers dramatic performance gains systems not running opcode caches though. -nathan
