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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Class Constant Finalization
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 25/01/2017 08:49, Niklas Keller wrote:
> 2017-01-25 9:27 GMT+01:00 Wes <netmo.php@gmail.com>:
>
>> They don't belong to a class only, but to a class and all its descendants.
>> Ideally, descendants should not inherit constants (or anything static), but
>> we can't change that now, so final could make sense here. Basically, they
>> should work exactly like static fields, except that static fields can be
>> re-assigned, while constants may not.
>>
> Well, we can deprecate them and remove it with PHP 8.
>

You mean, make all constants non-inheritable? Why?

Late static binding is a documented language feature, I don't see why 
it's any weirder for constants to participate in it than static fields 
and methods.

Regards,

-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]