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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Constants and Access Modifiers
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> My wording was maybe a bit wrong here, and I was biased by the fact that
> I would like to see abstract constants. The fact that not everything can

What is "abstract constant"? If you need something that can change, just
use a method. Constant is meant to be a nice way to write something
inherently constant, such as instead of "/very long
(and+)cubmber|some?*regexp/" you'd write NICE_REGEXP_CONSTANT. But it's
not supposed to create parallel inheritance structure or something. If
it needs to be non-constant, just use a method.

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Stas Malyshev
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