Re: [RFC] Allow ::class on objects

On Thu, Jan 9, 2020, at 6:10 PM, Marcio Almada wrote: > Em qui., 9 de jan. de 2020 às 20:57, Mike Schinkel > <mike@newclarity.net> escreveu: > > > > > On Jan 9, 2020, at 6:53 PM, Marcio Almada <marcio.web2@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Because we would be expanding a construct that already looks > > > inappropriate from a purely > > > semantic POV with aliases that also would allow inappropriate usage > > > some_function::interface. > > > I'd rather have a generally unsatisfying construct than a set of > > > "denormalized" constructs with > > > equal potential for human inaccuracy. > > > > > > Perhaps the problem is that ::class was not exactly a > > > good language > > > design decision in the first place or maybe > > > it made more sense in the past and as the language evolved it started > > > to appear to be named poorly. > > > > > > A more _general_ construct like a nameof operator, as > > > we have in C#, > > > could have been a brighter idea. See: > > > > Okay, I get your perspective on this now. > > > > So let us add ::nameof and deprecate ::class, then? And apply it for all symbols? :-) > > > > -Mike > > It seems late to mess with ::class, maybe not for having > nameof. I've never been bothered by Interface::class or Trait::class, frankly. But having to remember slightly different APIs for slightly different cases that I often have to handle together has caused me no end of pain. -1 to needing to think about which type of bracketed reference thingie I am getting a name for. But having some kind of working way to reference a function that doesn't involve concatenating a string onto a namespace constant would be *super* nice. Whether it's called ::func or ::nameof I don't much care. Viz, replace this: $func = __NAMESPACE__ . '\myfunc`'; With this: use My\Code\myfunc; $func = myfunc::nameof; (Or basically anything that lets me not use strings to reference a function by name.) To the OP suggestion of $object::class, I don't think I've run into a need for it but since the name is already reserved I don't see a negative; I'm good with it. --Larry Garfield