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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Static weirdness..
From: paj@pearfr.org (Pierre-Alain Joye)

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:21:50 +0100
Marcus Boerger <helly@php.net> wrote:

> But why the hell do you want a message, calling a static method from
> anywhere is absolutley fine. This of course includes calling a static
> method of an instance's class, however that is syntactically
> accomplished.

I think it's cleaner, but as said, I do not care. There is no chance to
get a compromise on that as it is the case in most OO topic here, too
much OO pov and fanatics ;-))

However I like to get the flags from getMethods :)


> I heared pear already mentioned in this thread. That cannot be of any
> reason with the ongoing effort to make statics work. First as i heared
> most of pear doesn't run on php5 and second pear of today uses php4
> which didn't support statics and lots of other oo goodies. So it clear
> that pear has some bc problems when moving to version where all the
> workarounds are now solved by syntax.

There is no problem. PEAR runs with PHP5 (I use only php5 these days)
And PEAR does not lead PHP devs but the counter, imho.

pierre