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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] static constructor
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 11/03/2015 23:21, Johannes Ott wrote:
> So now I want to do my first own proposal for a new function in PHP and
> I hope doing it right with starting a discussion here first.
>
> The purpose of this suggestion is to introduce a static constructor,
> which is called before the first call to class either static or
> non-static to initialize some static properties which are needed by the
> class.

Can you give an example use case for when this would be useful? I'm 
struggling to think of one for which there isn't already an established 
coding pattern...

Regards,
-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]