On Tue, 25 Jun 2024, Chuck Adams wrote: > > On Jun 25, 2024, at 9:17 AM, Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote: > > > > Having read this thread, and the previous one from half a year ago, > > I will do so too. In short, we shouldn't be encouraging static > > classes as a bag of static functions, that ought to be just > > namespaced functions. > > Which brings us back to the age-old problem that functions can’t be > autoloaded. Me, I want first-class modules, but until we have those, I > have to settle for classes in the meantime. Scala/Kotlin-like > “companion objects” might be a good all-round substitute though.
There has been some work done on function autoloading too: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/core-autoloading cheers, Derick
