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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] late static binding php6
From: m@digitalsandwich.com (Mike Lively)

Jochem Maas wrote:
> 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() ?
>   
No, your example would work. WHere it breaks down is if you want to
specialize B::find();

class B extends A {
    static function find($id) {
       /* do something special */
       parent::find($id);
    }
}


in that situation A::find(); would not be able to know it was being
called by B::find() because parent:: is considered an explicit class
name reference.