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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 19:14:25 +0100
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To: Ralph Schindler <ralph@ralphschindler.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Allow ::class on objects
From: george.banyard@gmail.com ("G. P. B.")

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On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 19:05, Ralph Schindler <ralph@ralphschindler.com>
wrote:

>
>
> > just return $string, to be consistent with usual behavior of
> > "::CONST_NAME", which allows objects and class names on the left hand
> side.
>
> Having given it more thought, it seems like like $string::class should
> be more aligned with get_class($string), which at current throws a PHP
> Warning with the message:
>
> "PHP Warning:  get_class() expects parameter 1 to be object, string
> given in ..."
>

This is going to be a TypeError in PHP 8 following the consistent type
error RFC [1]
therefore the current behaviour to throw a TypeError is inline which
get_class()

George P. Banyard

[1] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/consistent_type_errors

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