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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] static type-references
From: ralph@ralphschindler.com (Ralph Schindler)

> I missed this. We'll soon have User::class. This may resolve to, e.g.,
> 'Foo\User'.

Right, and since the literal/string version of the class is as "1st 
class citizen" as it could possibly get, it makes it easier for tools 
like Studio/Storm/phpunit/etc to do better static analysis of class names.

The immediate usage for an IDE would be clean refactoring of type names.

-ralph