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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Extensions to traits
From: mail_ben_schmidt@yahoo.com.au (Ben Schmidt)

> In fact, this is so nice, could I suggest it would be nice to allow
> other delegation-like forwarding to be done like this? You could have
> 'use' without a trait even, just like this:
>
> use {
>    $queue->add as addToQueue;
> }
>
> Since the properties' object wouldn't be available at compile time, this
> extra ability would probably have to be implemented by basically
> generating an addToQueue method, and it wouldn't work with arguments
> passed by reference. It would basically be a shorthand for
>
> public function addToQueue() {
>    return call_user_func(array($queue,'add'),func_get_args());
> }
>
> but much more elegant.

Of course should have been

public function addToQueue() {
    return call_user_func(array($this->queue,'add'),func_get_args());
}

Ben.