Object execution

For example... --- example.php --- <?php class Example { public function __main() { echo "Hello World!"; } } ?> --- end example.php --- `php -q example.php` would output "Hello World!" With this you could potentially eliminate the global scope if you chose to. For the record, by no means do I want PHP to be Java. I just think this feature would be a nice finishing touch to a very OOP style app. Otherwise you basically have to have a one liner to call something like app::run(). On 6/28/05, Nicolas Bérard Nault <nicobn@gmail.com> wrote:

I think it means being able to scope the default execution block for a script. Normally script goes from top-to-bottom dipping into each include and compiles and executes them in a linear fashion. Perhaps having a main would hold off on the execution part until you got to the main() and from there, only execute that which is used inside that block and then exit. The "main method of a class" idea I always felt was unnatural in Java. A C/C++ style main() as I describe above could be interesting. I wonder if it has any compelling benefits to it, or rather what would the advantage be over how PHP is executed today? Al On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 18:36 -0400, Nicolas Bérard Nault wrote: