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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] late static binding php6
From: jochem@iamjochem.com (Jochem Maas)

Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
>> Rest assured that this is not the bad kind of 'more complex' I believe
> 
> I'm afraid I must disagree. The feature that was missing was to know the
> true calling class name. That was implemented. You can build from it,
> there's no need to add further complication to the language. You can
> easily find out the calling class for static call, you can easily find
> it's parent, provided one exists, you can easily call any method of this
> class.

class A {
	static function find($id) {
		// lets try and find a 'something'
	}
}

class B extends A {}

// I'd like a 'B' please bob.
$b = B::find( 1 );



are you saying that A::find() can tell that it was called as B::find() ?