Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #4612 Updated: Too much of $this
| From: | Antonio Dias | Date: | Fri, 26 May 2000 16:56:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #4612 Updated: Too much of $this | ||
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> 3) Introduce a new keyword - similar in concept to global - that declares an
> identifier as refering to a member: the keyword `member' would be a good
> candidate - this would also be backwards compatible. The disadvantage of this
> scheme is that it'd be a pain (but probably not as much as $this).
Or a new operator. IMHO the best choice would be "::" like in C++, that is
an alias for "this". We can achieve a very good readability and
maintain compatibility with php3 if "::" is implemented as an alias
for this.
This way we can do
::test = something;
in place of
$this->test = something;
Cheers,
Antonio Dias