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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Initializing constants once, with code?
From: mike@newclarity.net (Mike Schinkel)

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> On Jan 2, 2020, at 7:09 PM, tyson andre <tysonandre775@hotmail.com> =
wrote:
>=20
>> The problem with using constants is that the value is still hardcoded
>> and if we later want to change to pulling the data from a config file=20=

>> we have to change all the code that uses those constants.=20
>=20
> It's possible to work around this by using a unique constant name
> and define('unique_name', $dynamicExpression)
> (and const MY_CLASS_CONST =3D \unique_name;)

I do appreciate the attempt to come up with something that is a =
workaround.

That said, I definitely do not want to do is start using "clever" code =
in my implementations because =E2=80=94 one day =E2=80=94 someone else =
will have to maintain what I write.

Really, I was just asking for a discussion of potentially allowing for =
one-time initialization via code for constants and via a =
straightforward, obvious syntax and standardized syntax. =20

Effectively I am just asking for immutable static values in a class that =
can be access vis the <Class>::<ImmutableValue> syntax.

-Mike


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