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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] namespaces and alpha3
From: et@php.net (Stefan Walk)

On Friday 10 October 2008 19:02:25 Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > 3) Stas proposal
>
> I have two proposals, actually.

[snip]

> 2. Leave functions/constants as they are now, and add the following syntax:
> Class::Name->method()
> for calling static methods (and referring to class constants), so that
> there would be a way to disambiguate calls in (rare, IMHO) situations
> where ambiguity may arise.

This certainly seems like the best proposal.

Regards,
Stefan