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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:26:37 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: use SomeClass::staticMethod
From: krebs.seb@gmail.com (Sebastian Krebs)

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Hi,

because it fits into the context (even if it's slightly offtopic): Can I
throw in, that I would like to see autoloading for functions? :)

Regards,
Sebastian

2012/8/15 Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>

> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Giedrius Dubinskas
> <d.giedrius@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello Internals!
> >
> > I'm just on and off luker here but thought I'll throw in an idea for a
> > feature I'd love to see in PHP: aliasing static methods.
> >
> > Syntax would look something like this:
> >
> >   use Namespaced\SomeClass::staticMethod;
> >   use Some\Foo::bar as fooBar;
> >
> >   staticMethod(); // would call Namespaced\SomeClass::staticMethod()
> >   fooBar(); // would call Some\Foo::bar()
> >
> > This would make code more readable, by removing the the noise of
> > repetition of class names. For use cases we can look at Java use cases
> > for "import static".
> >
> > Aliasing class constants like that would also be very nice.
> >
> > What does everyone think?
>
> I have the suspicion that you are just using static methods as a way
> to group functions into a "namespace". If that's what you want, then
> why not just use namespaced functions for that? Should be a lot less
> confusing and also semantically more correct.
>
> Nikita
>
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