Paul M. Jones has submitted a 5th RFC proposal to add function autoloading to PHP, with an accompanying pull request on php-src. The discussion thread includes early feedback from PHP internals contributors, notably a question about namespace fallback behavior — specifically whether the autoloader should make a second call with the global namespace name when a namespaced function call like Foo\bar() fails to resolve. Rob Landers notes that a previous attempt stalled partly due to consensus that the SPL autoloader mechanism should be deprecated rather than extended.
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