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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 21:10:58 -0300
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To: Mike Schinkel <mike@newclarity.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Allow ::class on objects
From: marcio.web2@gmail.com (Marcio Almada)

Em qui., 9 de jan. de 2020 =C3=A0s 20:57, Mike Schinkel
<mike@newclarity.net> escreveu:
>
> > On Jan 9, 2020, at 6:53 PM, Marcio Almada <marcio.web2@gmail.com> wrote=
:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> So let us add ::nameof and deprecate ::class, then?   And apply it for al=
l symbols?  :-)
>
> -Mike

It seems late to mess with `::class`, maybe not  for having `nameof`.