Re: this-pointer

In article <3959247E.16FFE44F@superweb.nl>, tijhennink@superweb.nl (Tijmen Hennink) wrote: > does anybody know why PHP is using that irritating $this pointer in > classes?? > Why not access locale variables and function directly like Java? Please feel free to correct this irritation in your source code and submit a patch... It's probably that way mostly because that's what could be done in the time available to the authors. I would expect the OO system of PHP to evolve as time goes on, perhaps some day approaching the nirvana of Lisp :-) Or at least getting closer to Java. So long as it doesn't stay so much like C++ [shudder] -- Richard Lynch | If this was worth $$$ to you, buy a CD US Customer Support Director | from one of the artists listed here: Zend Technologies USA | http://www.L-I-E.com/artists.htm http://www.zend.com | (this has nothing to do with Zend, duh!)