Re: T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 09:57:08AM +0100, Bertrand Mansion wrote : > <derick@php.net> wrote : > > > On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Bertrand Mansion wrote: > > > >> If this behaviour could be extended to support $className::method(), that > >> would be just great. > > > > Search the archives, it was brought up before, conclusion: it will not > > happen. > > I only found this: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=96271776302715&w=2FÐ JV¹\ > |›þGe$ > which is a very interesting feature request. In there, there is a request > for this : $className::method(). I am not the only one. > > > Personally, I still don't understand why this will not happen. Why would you > allow class::method() in the first place ? If you have any pointers to your > previous discussions, please let me know. I am not exactly sure, but I hardly remember a discussion which about this (don't know where it was) that it would slow down performance. Maybe this was on the engine2 list. - Markus