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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] New RFC draft "static class constructor"
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

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On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 11:49 +0200, Johannes Ott wrote:
> Am 14.04.2015 um 00:16 schrieb Levi Morrison:
> >> - IMO, the method should be called when the class is created, just aft=
er every parent class and implemented interfaces are created.
> >=20
> > In general I think static class data and static class constructors are
> > a sign of poorly designed code, which means I am against this feature.
>=20
> Thanks for the flowers as we would say in Germany! I didn't hear I'm
> doing poor code for a long time now :(

If static elements need initialisation they apparently have state. If
they have state they in 95% of the cases shouldn't be static but bound
to an object instance. Yes there might be cases where this is a good
design, but the language should provide the syntax sugar to lead the 95%
to write good code instead of leading them to write bad code which can
be tested harder and where changes might have unexpected side-effects.

So even if you're code is good and your own use-case is good design,
which I won't question, I don't think advertising it to all users by
providing a language feature is good.

johannes


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