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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:24:28 +0300
To: "Lukas Kahwe Smith" <mls@pooteeweet.org>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] late static binding php6
From: indeyets@gmail.com ("Alexey Zakhlestin")

On 11/19/07, Lukas Kahwe Smith <mls@pooteeweet.org> wrote:
>
> On 19.11.2007, at 14:05, Alexey Zakhlestin wrote:
>
> > On 11/19/07, Lukas Kahwe Smith <mls@pooteeweet.org> wrote:
> >
> >> I think the point of Stas reply was to use self:: instead of
> >> parent::.
> >
> > how would self help? that would mean calling this exact method, not
> > the method of parent-class
>
> that way you could add the class name as a second parameter to the
> parent method, without having to type it out in every call. Anyways,
> I think the current situation is quite clear to me. then again, I
> forgot if we also added new magic constants to go along with
> __CLASS__ for this (aka __SELF__)?

that's possible, but some more "magic" seems to be "natural" here.

As I and several others proposed earlier the best option would be:

parent::method() thinks it is the same class as a caller
ClassName::method() thinks it is ClassName

this would be the least-surprise situation

-- 
Alexey Zakhlestin
http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/