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To: Sebastian Bergmann <sb@sebastian-bergmann.de>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: new overloading feature?
From: lsmith@php.net (Lukas Smith)

Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
> Lukas Smith wrote:
> 
>>http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=30235
> 
> 
>  I agree with Marcus: self is bound at runtime, so the behaviour is
>  correct. If you do not like this late binding just do not use self but
>  the name of the class.

So please explain to me how you would write a singleton static method 
for a base class from which you can inherite. Suddenly the idea with 
using the class name becomes less useful.

The late binding seems to be a nice performance tweak, but it means that 
in many situations you end up having to do cut and paste in combination 
with inheritance. Doesnt seem very OOP to me, altough I fear Java 
behaves the same way. So all I am asking for is an easy way to call a 
static method in the current context (without having to go through the 
reflection API, having to store the class name in a static property etc).

regards,
Lukas