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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [patch] Callbacks bug/change request
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Richard,

   the feature actually exists because we need array($obj, 'parent::func')

best regards
marcus

Thursday, May 31, 2007, 10:33:54 PM, you wrote:

> On Thu, May 31, 2007 1:06 pm, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
>>> It's already supported, but buggy right now. I don't believe fixing
>>> it
>>> for odd cases will bother anyone.
>>
>> Well, I'm for one not sure that callback in form array('B',
>> 'parent::foo') shouldn't error out instead (I know it works now, but
>> it
>> never states in the docs it's legal and I don't think it was intended
>> to
>> work). Otherwise next thing would be array('B', 'C::foo') and that'd
>> be
>> a real mess.

> Seems to me that anybody who thinks they need this can lookup the
> parent of B and construct the right array in the first place...

> I'm sure the patch is nifty, but it seems better to me to just error
> out as well.

> What about array('B', 'self::foo') -- I can see how that's needed to
> call the static method, I guess...

> -- 
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> Yeah, I get a buck. So?




Best regards,
 Marcus