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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] __getStatic
From: thekid@thekid.de ("Timm Friebe")

Hi,
First of all, thanks for reviewing and the feedback. I knew this wasn't 
perfect, and tried to understand what was previously done for __get and 
__set and transport that to the static counterparts. Unfortunately not all 
"infrastructure" like the std_*_property_handler callbacks is in place for 
static properties so this had to be created, too.

Lukas writes:
> hmm .. i also emailed Timm a few weeks ago and got no reaction. the 
> question now is .. does someone else care enough to work through the 
> issues Stas has noted to get things in shape to be committed?

I've been quite busy with personell and budget planning at our company and 
have thus had neither time yet to shift through my private e-mail nor to do 
any programming, be it for private projects or for PHP. I was hoping someone 
else might pick up on this patch and try to complete it, it's been asked for 
a couple of times in different forums / newsgroups / this list (a Google 
search reveals these). On the other hand, there's only one really good 
use-case that pops to my mind for __getStatic(), and maybe the "type-safe 
object properties" pattern Sebastian (Bergmann) had in his blog may be 
another one, but nothing people would care enough for (especially once 
compared to the feelings around namespaces), so that's probably why this 
hasn't happened!:-)

Stas writes:
> This patch is definitely not ready, so I'd wait with it unless we get 
> really good one very-very soon.

I guess very-very soon is already over, and yes, absolutely, this patch is 
far from perfection, so I'd also delay it. Maybe someone (Lars from 
http://wiki.php.net/rfc/static-classes?) might also want to gather some 
motivation for the __*Static() methods as in good use cases...

- Timm