Re: Re: Suggestion Method Constant

> > 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. Please no fallbacks, thanks. It was already a mistake for namespaced functions. Regards, Niklas