> On Jan 1, 2020, at 11:31 PM, Mark Randall <marand...@php.net> wrote: > In future, I think the optimal solution is opt-in deprecating fallback to the > root namespace using a declare. We might eventually benefit from versioned > "libraries" of functions that can be imported in one command which would > solve many-a-future-problem by itself.
+1 to that. Especially if there is a mechanism to define functions from other people's code to be included in those "libraries", such as the functions in the WordPress API. > Id like to see nikic/scalar_objects added to the core in 8.0, that would > offer non-procedural (and therefore non-namespaced) access to many of the > most common global functions (strings, arrays etc). In turn, that would allow > developers to limit the number of use \... statements. And +1000 to that! -Mike
