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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: about class names as values
From: johannes@php.net (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 21:53 -0300, Martin Scotta wrote:
> $obj = newInstance( MyClass ); // notice. undefined constant MyClass

This describes the major change with your idea.

What happens if a constant MyClass exists?

Another question is something like this:

<?php
function  factory($class) {
    return new $class();
}

factory( SomeClass );
?>


To proper support this we'd have to make classes first class elements.
For making this consistent it would make sense to make functions first
class elements. And best drop the $ in front of variables and create a
new language. Everything else becomes a mess.

johannes