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To: Marcio Almada <marcio.web2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Allow ::class on objects
From: mike@newclarity.net (Mike Schinkel)

> On Jan 9, 2020, at 6:53 PM, Marcio Almada <marcio.web2@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> Because we would be expanding a construct that already looks
> inappropriate from a purely
> semantic POV with aliases that also would allow inappropriate usage
> `some_function::interface`.
> I'd rather have a generally unsatisfying construct than a set of
> "denormalized" constructs with
> equal potential for human inaccuracy.
>=20
> Perhaps the problem is that `::class` was not exactly a good language
> design decision in the first place or maybe
> it made more sense in the past and as the language evolved it started
> to appear to be named poorly.
>=20
> A more _general_ construct like a `nameof` operator, as we have in C#,
> could have been a brighter idea. See:

Okay, I get your perspective on this now.=20

So let us add ::nameof and deprecate ::class, then?   And apply it for =
all symbols?  :-)

-Mike=