string operators for assigning class constants

17 years ago by Sebastian — view source

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hi,

why isn't it possible to assign class constants like this:

class test
{
const
DIR='dirname'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'anotherdirname'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
}

is there some performance issue?
anyone ever tried this or was there a discussion about it? i would find this
very useful.....

greetings

17 years ago by Antony Dovgal — view source

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hi,

why isn't it possible to assign class constants like this:

class test
{
const
DIR='dirname'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'anotherdirname'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
}

Because concatenating is an expression, expressions are executed in runtime (2nd stage)
and classes are declared in compile-time (1st stage).

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Wbr,
Antony Dovgal