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Subject: RFC: internal class' static properties
From: mike@php.net (Michael Wallner)

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As already mentioned earlier, there does not seem to be
any extension or core code using static properties for
internal classes.

I'd like to request a change in their behaviour/implementation.

Currently static properties of internal classes are allocated
persitently which limits their usage and has odd sideaffects.

AFAICS they are declared at MINIT and initialized once, also
at MINIT. Now, if they become modified (running as a module)
they'll "leak" from one request to another.

Therefore I'd suggest changing that so that they'll be
initialized and destructed for each request, which means
that there will need to be some form of hooks, which
AFAICS also allows to have streams or arrays
(i.e. complex types) as static properties just
like in userland.

PS: It seems that there's class constant API missing too.

Regards,
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Michael - < mike(@)php.net >


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