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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: New Feature: Fully qualified class name resolution
 as scalar with class keyword
From: ralph@ralphschindler.com (Ralph Schindler)


> How would static::class behave ? is it handled by the current patch?
> Maybe the test case could be extended to reflect this, and also for
> self::class?

Fantastic question.  I am unsure how to handle this.  Currently, it will 
simply resolve those names against the rules (I am sure this is the 
wrong behavior.)  So,

    namespace Foo\Bar { var_dump(self::class); }

Would now produce:

    string(12) "Foo\Bar\self"

This is the same with 'self', 'static', and 'parent'.  I guess the 
question is, should that produce a compile error, or conditionally work 
depending on if you are inside of a class declaration or not?

I will add this consideration to the RFC.

-ralph