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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:42:42 -0700 (PDT)
To: Gregory Beaver <greg@chiaraquartet.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Namespaced function vs static method in global class
From: ionut.stan@yahoo.com (Ionut Gabriel Stan)

Thanks for your answer guys, they answered my questions. Hopefully any introduction in the language of a __getStatic() and __setStatic() won't make things even more confusing.

Thanks also for the effort you put in developing PHP, I really appreciate it.

Cheers,
I. Stan




----- Original Message ----
From: Gregory Beaver <greg@chiaraquartet.net>
To: Ionut Gabriel Stan <ionut.stan@yahoo.com>
Cc: internals@lists.php.net
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 7:25:31 AM
Subject: [PHP-DEV] Re: Namespaced function vs static method in global class

Ionut Gabriel Stan wrote:

<snip>

> echo Test::foo(); // outputs namespace function
> echo '<br>';
> echo ::Test::foo(); // outputs namespace function

<snip>

> My questions are:
> 
> 1. How should I call the static method foo in the global class Test (except for call_user_func)
> 2. How should I call the static method baz of class Bar in namespace Test with call_user_func
> 3. Is there no possibility to change your minds and replace the double colon with something else, likes a simple colon? I find it very confusing to figure out what is what and the way I should call it.

Hi Ionut,

Stas did a good job of answering how to call the static method using
call_user_func.  The answer to #1 under the current implementation is
"you can't" which is why I posted a patch to allow differentiating
between the two earlier this week.

However, I have since discovered a much better solution, and have a
working patch, but am checking details offlist before I propose it, as
it involves a slight but important change to namespace syntax.  Stay
tuned for further details.  As for your 3rd question, I guarantee this
will not happen, as it is technically impossible to do.  For instance:

switch ($something) {
    case oops:
        is:this:part:of:oops();
        break;
}

The above code could resolve to either "case oops:" followed by
"is:this:part:of:oops()" or as "case oops:is:this:part:of:oops()" and
there is no way for a computer to tell the difference without
introducing required whitespace.  Since PHP != Python, that won't happen :).

Greg

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