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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:49:54 +0200
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To: Levi Morrison <levim@php.net>
Cc: Alexander Lisachenko <lisachenko.it@gmail.com>, "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@gmx.de>, 
	Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>, 
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] BC break: ReflectionMethod::invoke() expects
 parameter1to be object, string given
From: jpauli@php.net (Julien Pauli)

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 7:56 AM, Alexander Lisachenko
> <lisachenko.it@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2016-08-23 16:40 GMT+03:00 Julien Pauli <jpauli@php.net>:
>>>
>>> My patch allows that, but I can't find a use case to it.
>>
>>
>>
>> My use case for that was decorating of static methods with additional
>> behaviour, so it's possible to cache the result of static methods, etc.
>> Unfortunately, reflection API doesn't provide me such an ability, so I
>> decided to switch to the combination of special closure with
>> forward_static_call_array() and binding it to the desired scope.
>>
>>
>> 2016-08-23 16:40 GMT+03:00 Julien Pauli <jpauli@php.net>:
>>>
>>> Try it.
>>
>>
>> Yes, sure, I will check. However as I say earlier, now I use closure
>> extraction and scope binding as more natural way to invoke such methods. So
>> missing scope argument for static methods and ReflectionMethod->invoke() is
>> a nice thing to have, but not a critical one.
>
> Seems to me you should be calling getClosure() and using
> Closure::bindTo before invoking it. ReflectionMethod::invoke is really
> just a short-cut for a common case; I don't think it's reasonable to
> have it mirror the Closure API just to save one method call to get a
> Closure.

This cannot work.
There is a special use case forbidding that.
"Cannot rebind scope of closure created by
ReflectionFunctionAbstract::getClosure()"


Julien