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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [patch] Dynamic access of static members/methods, and
 constants
From: antony@zend.com (Antony Dovgal)

On 04/27/2007 04:37 PM, Etienne Kneuss wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've already proposed that 1-2 months ago, but now seems to be a good 
> time to discuss new things, so let's try again:
> 
> I believe it would be nice to be able to dynamically reference static
> members, constants, and methods.
> 
> Currently, there is no way to do that and the only way would be to
> create a static method and use call_user_func(array($classname, 'getThat'));
> 
> In other words:

I'm +0 if it's for HEAD only.

Also I can see only two tests at the moment, we'll need MUCH more.
There are so much combinations to test: unicode & binary strings, numbers, arrays, objects, booleans etc. etc.

-- 
Wbr, 
Antony Dovgal