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title: "[RFC] Function Autoloading (mark 5)"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/rfc-function-autoloading-mark-5--s2cpsbka1
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published: 2026-06-16T22:27:51.479Z
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# [RFC] Function Autoloading (mark 5)

**[externals.io](https://daily.dev/sources/externals)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Paul M. Jones has submitted a 5th RFC attempt to add function autoloading to PHP, with an accompanying pull request on php-src. The proposal aims to extend PHP's existing class autoloading mechanism to cover functions. Early discussion from Bob Weinand raises a design question about namespace fallback behavior: whether the autoloader should make a second call with the global namespace name when a namespaced function lookup (e.g., Foo\bar) fails to resolve, which could reduce edge cases.

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