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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:59:57 +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,

This additional "function" seems little bit ... misplaced.  :X Why not just

use MyFoo\Bar;
Bar\baz(); // <-- Would be cool, if this trigger an autloader if required

Except, that there is no autoloading everything already works this way.

Regards,
Sebastian



2012/8/15 Giedrius Dubinskas <d.giedrius@gmail.com>

> Yes that is a very common use case and autoloading functions would
> solve that one but my main aim here is readability. And that said I
> would also suggest:
>
>   use function Namespaced\foo;
>
>   foo(); // calls Namespaced\foo();
>
> ;-)
>
> --
> Giedrius Dubinskas
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Sebastian Krebs <krebs.seb@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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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