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Subject: issues with classnames, staic class members and constants as variables
From: quickshiftin@gmail.com ("Nathan Nobbe")

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hello all,

this is my maiden voyage on the internals list.  recently i have discovered
functionality that existed in php-5.2.4 that missing in php-5.2.5 and also
php-5.2.6_rc3.  i have posted to the php-general list and to the php-qa list
and not received any sort of feedback about this discovery.  primarily, in
php-5.2.4 variables could be used to hold the name of a class and used to
access static members (both attributes and methods) as well as constants.
there was other related support as well.  please see the archived post on
the qa list for details,
http://marc.info/?l=php-qa&m=120901795414161&w=2
there you will see i have prepared phpt tests and run them on php-5.2.4 and
php-5.2.6_rc3 installs.

im curious if support was intentionally removed or if it was an oversight?
if so, is this something that could be forward ported from php-5.2.4?  i
would be willing to work on a patch if that were the case.

thanks,

-nathan

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