Re: RE:Class::? - accessing data, no success...

SM> First of all, C++ is far from being best OO language. Being derived from C SM> (which is nothing but a macroassembler, from the language standpoint) it SM> is suffering from many inconsistencies. Doing something just because C++ SM> does it is not a good reason. Good point, but me and some others who asked fot that functionality have seen a possible need in PHP without regarding what C++ does (at least me :) ), just for the reason that it can be handy to get information about classes datamember without the need to instanciate it. SM> Please explain - what exactly do you want to get when you require data SM> member from a class? A new variable that is "magically" created? And where Huh, that much thinking so early... I thought of a storing it in a kind of non-visible hash table. (BTW, currently it does not seem to be posssible using :: with variables at all like you did $class::var (you could use eval(), sure)). I exactly want to get the assigned variable, like it is declared. SM> will it be stored? What happens if you do $class::var = 1? All objects get SM> "var" property magically set to 1 (like it is in C++)? Or just a new SM> classes? Magically creation seems to be popular in PHP, but that kind of *magically creation* is not popular in PHP, I think. Perhaps it makes sense, but for now I do not see a need for a mighty *lookup all instances and assign $this->var=1 there* I even do not know if assignment should be possible. The most important thing is retrieving the data, if one could change the initial class declaration with $class::var=$x; - nice, but I think Zeev&Andi won´t like that ;) - and if you decide implementing this post-declaration-modification, you´ll have to add this functionality for methods too (perhaps nice too). As said, retrieving the data is the hard point... -- o----------0-¬---------O-·---¬----o---®-----o o O ° . | http://www.kiffen.de | pRoteçt y0ur bRaín |0 O ° ¤ ° · 0°·³°²'²³-¹'³´³°^°³~³²³°'³²²¨³²^³¹³²°²³`³º³°Þ ° o © ° . · | psychedelic experience | gott@kiffen.de | O ° o ° o-¬--o--0-----©-·--O-----o-----0-¤----------o 0 ° · ° . ¤ ·