Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:79344 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 26503 invoked from network); 1 Dec 2014 16:14:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Dec 2014 16:14:31 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.200 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.200 imap1-2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.200] ([192.64.116.200:54065] helo=imap1-2.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 76/71-18127-5E39C745 for ; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 11:14:31 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 888C7B00093; Mon, 1 Dec 2014 11:14:26 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap1.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap1.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id v0d8bqCNt7eG; Mon, 1 Dec 2014 11:14:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from oa-res-27-210.wireless.abdn.ac.uk (oa-res-27-210.wireless.abdn.ac.uk [137.50.27.210]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 17E8FB0008F; Mon, 1 Dec 2014 11:14:24 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.1 \(1993\)) In-Reply-To: <547C9383.5030706@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 16:14:22 +0000 Cc: "guilhermeblanco@gmail.com" , Robert Stoll , internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <0B128904-86C2-4340-95C7-76107F283D40@ajf.me> References: <003c01d00d6e$f4fd77c0$def86740$@tutteli.ch> <868FD3D8-4E80-46F4-872A-125D3FD8F40D@ajf.me> <01B00E9F-1066-4AAB-A798-B07811FC46FB@ajf.me> <547C9383.5030706@gmx.de> To: Christoph Becker X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1993) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Static classes (Was Abstract final classes) From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) > On 1 Dec 2014, at 16:12, Christoph Becker wrote: >=20 > Andrea Faulds wrote: >=20 >> Yes, they=E2=80=99re a simple addition, but I still think they=E2=80=99= re the wrong >> solution to the problem. We shouldn=E2=80=99t force people to use = classes for >> simple collections of functions. People have wanted function >> autoloading for years. I say it=E2=80=99s high time we add that. >=20 > Maybe should be = reopened? Perhaps. I did want to revive that RFC, but I disliked Anthony=E2=80=99s = approach to implementing it (new set of functions, namespaced) and the = patch wasn=E2=80=99t for phpng.=20 -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/