Re: Suggestion Method Constant
| From: | Andrea Faulds | Date: | Sat, 14 Oct 2017 01:02:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Suggestion Method Constant | ||
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Hi Mathias,
Mathias Grimm wrote:
I would like to suggest a method constant that could be used the same way we use the ::class one I don't have a strong personal preference but it could be something like: MyController::myActionMethod::method, no sure about the internals but it would be consistent with the one for the class. Cheers,I've long wanted to make constant lookups fall back to a closure of the correspondingly-named function, where one exists. so
strlen would resolve to a closure of strlen().
Thing is that classes are weird. We sort of have three different things with sometimes-similar syntax: constants, methods and properties. foo::bar is a constant, foo::bar() is a function, $foo->bar() is a function, but $foo->bar is not a constant. So, if I want $foo->bar to resolve to a method, then $foo::$bar should too, even though that makes no sense. The PHP static property syntax is the bane of my existence.
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Andrea Faulds
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