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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.3 Release Planning
From: m@digitalsandwich.com ("Mike Lively")

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On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com> wrote:

> I must be misunderstanding the patch then - doesn't it change behavior
> of the engine so that parent:: doesn't mean "parent of __CLASS__"
> anymore? If so, could you explain again what it does?


Of course parent:: still means parent. The change in behavior from the
current patch is just that once you call parent::someMethod you will still
have access to overridden methods in child classes which with the current
patch is not possible. Again, it just provides complete polymorphism for
statics.

parent:: is very simple thing - it means "use the name of the parent
> class here". I do not thing changing it is a good idea.


I am of the opinion that parent:: simply means call the parent function
which doesn't change with the patch. I understand that you do not think it
is a good, but I and many other people that have expressed their opinion on
list regarding this matter disagree with you. You seem to be very focused on
the parent:: issue without looking at the whole picture.

Like I said before, I think all of the arguments have been hashed  out. I
would just like a yes or no decision that preferably reflects the desire of
the user base. It would be fantastic if some more decision makers had some
time to give their input.


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> Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect
> stas@zend.com   http://www.zend.com/
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>

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