Re: PHP5 class constants

From:	Chris	Date:	Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:56:27 +0000
Subject:	Re: PHP5 class constants
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Dragan Stanojevic - Nevidljivi wrote:

Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 01:02 +0200, Dragan Stanojevic - Nevidljivi wrote: [snip]
and it works fine, I cannot define a constant by expression, like: class Foo { const AAA = 1 << 0; const BBB = 1 << 1; const CCC = 1 << 2; const DDD = 1 << 3; } Well now, is this a bug, and I should file it, or is it, and why, normal?
Not a bug. Read manual.
From http://php.net/oop5.constants comes the following:

Oh, thanks Jasper... Pitty though, code would be a lot cleaner if the constant setting would allow it (put evaluated value in constant). bye, N:: That constant is the same throughout all instances of the object, So you can't calculate the value based on instantiated info.

Though I suppose you could make an argument for using expressions that consist of only constant values. Chris