[TYPO3-project-4-3] autoloader using SPL

[Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]]

Hi!

Martin Kutschker wrote:
> Do you know what SPL is? It's a PHP extension that comes shipped by
> default with PHP, just like "gd", "preg" or the various XML extension we
> require.

It is not installed by default on my SuSE.

> It has a few goodies like the autoloader "service" and iterator classes.
> The only point for SPL and autoloading is to use it not to interfere
> with any other PHP code that makes use of it. A kind of politeness ;-)

As I said you can "function_exists" it. SPL is not the only framework that provides autoload and counting only SPL is not good.

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Dmitry Dulepov
TYPO3 Core team
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