Hello Etienne,
besides a tiny bit of whitespace issues the patch looks fine. Actually we
use tabs at the beginning of lines here (prior and after |'s). Once you got
more people looking/commenting on the patch we mde decide whetehr to apply
it.
best regards
marcus
Tuesday, March 6, 2007, 4:06:55 PM, you wrote:
> Hi,
> It may have already been proposed, but I give it a shot:
> I believe it would be nice to be able to dynamically reference static
> members and constants.
> Currently, there is no way to do that and the only way would be to
> create a static method and use call_user_func(array($classname, 'getThat'));
> In other words:
> class A {
> public static $foo = 'bar';
> const gee = 'zzz';
> public static function getFoo() { return self::$foo; }
> }
> $classname = 'A';
> echo $classname::$foo; // bar
> echo $classname::gee; // zzz
> // instead of:
> echo call_user_func(array($classname, 'getFoo'));
> Please take a look at the patch I made for it.
> For consistency purposes, I also implemented $classname::myMethod();
> even if it's not required. FWIW, I've no strong feeling about it.
> Regards,
Best regards,
Marcus
