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Subject:  Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal for new construct: nameof
From: edwardzyang@thewritingpot.com ("Edward Z. Yang")

Stan Vassilev | FM wrote:
> I suggest we introduce a new construct which will return a string when passed any identifier to resolve against the current file's use clauses:
> 
> nameof Symbol\Name;
> 
> With this identifier, the above example can be "normalized" to the following code:

I second this suggestion. One thing that would be awesome is if we could
drop nameof completely (i.e. all class/function names are first class
data) like F::loadFunc(B\Baz), but I doubt it would be possible with the
parser (at the very least, it wouldn't work for items without a
namespace separator, since it could be construed as a constant).

Cheers,
Edward