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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:51:39 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Class names (with regard to autoload)
From: viroteck@viroteck.net (Robin Burchell)

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Guilherme Blanco
<guilhermeblanco@gmail.com> wrote:
> I doubt you'll find a patch to it.
>
> Mainly, the patch will be against this principle:
>
<snip>

Hmm, that wouldn't actually have an impact, as (at least, what I'm
aiming for/wanting to do) is not to introduce periods as valid in
actual class names, but to allow them to be used for autoloading - so
I can have something like this (abbreviated terribly, apologies):

function __autoload($sFoo)
{
    include(str_replace(".", "/", $sFoo));
}

.. so, your example would expand to Foo.Bar, which given that periods
aren't allowed in a class name doesn't exist as a class, and won't
work. Unless I'm missing something?



Actually, I don't believe that expanding is even done - i.e. it
doesn't respect defines there

Seems that way on testing, too:

class FooBar
{
        // ...
}

define('Part',  'Foo');
define('SubPart',  'Bar');

$fb = new Part.SubPart();


gives: Fatal error: Class 'Part' not found

.. but that part of things is a going off on a bit of a tangent.