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Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 06:27:53 -0500
Reply-To: Jason Sweat <jason.sweat@gmail.com>
To: Markus Fischer <markus@fischer.name>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: new overloading feature?
From: jason.sweat@gmail.com (Jason Sweat)

On 5/10/05, Markus Fischer <markus@fischer.name> wrote:
> When the class is named SomeLongNameBecauseWedontHaveNamespaces and I
> define a SELF_EXPLAINING_CONSTANT_NUMBER_ONE I've to write
> SomeLongNameBecauseWedontHaveNamespaces::SELF_EXPLAINING_CONSTANT_NUMBER_=
ONE
> to access it from within the class itself.
>=20
> Is there a way to reference constants from the same class (or dervived
> class) in a friendlier way?

Hi Markus,

I often use self::SELF_EXPLAINING_CONSTANT_NUMBER_ONE when in context
of a class method itself.

HTH
=20
Regards,
Jason
http://blog.casey-sweat.us/