Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:33286 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 4484 invoked by uid 1010); 19 Nov 2007 06:20:09 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 4469 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2007 06:20:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Nov 2007 06:20:09 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=stas@zend.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=stas@zend.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain zend.com designates 212.25.124.162 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: stas@zend.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.25.124.162 mail.zend.com Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 Received: from [212.25.124.162] ([212.25.124.162:8440] helo=mx1.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 87/8E-31009-71B21474 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:20:09 -0500 Received: from us-ex1.zend.com ([192.168.16.5]) by mx1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:20:04 +0200 Received: from [192.168.17.92] ([192.168.17.92]) by us-ex1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:20:01 -0800 Message-ID: <47412B11.6030804@zend.com> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:20:01 -0800 Organization: Zend Technologies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Lively CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <474021AD.3020902@avalon.aut.bme.hu> <1195392958.4012.15.camel@johannes.nop> <47409635.9040304@digitalsandwich.com> In-Reply-To: <47409635.9040304@digitalsandwich.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Nov 2007 06:20:01.0616 (UTC) FILETIME=[3785FD00:01C82A74] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] late static binding php6 From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev) > I realize that instance calls are a completely different ball game than > static calls but LSB was supposed to give us the same flexibility. Actually, I don't think it was. If you want objects, why not use the real thing? LSB was created to solve just one particular problem - inability to distinguish A::method() from B::method() if B extends A. > called class on. It would allow more complex forms of inheritance, "more complex" is not always better. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com