Re: [RFC][Dynamic class constant fetch]
| From: | Larry Garfield | Date: | Fri, 04 Nov 2022 14:39:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC][Dynamic class constant fetch] | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Fri, Nov 4, 2022, at 9:31 AM, Marco Pivetta wrote:
> Heyo,
>
> On Fri, 4 Nov 2022 at 15:26, Ilija Tovilo <tovilo.ilija@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> I'd like to propose a simple RFC to introduce looking up class
>> constants by name. We have dedicated syntax for basically all other
>> language constructs. This RFC aims to get rid of this seemingly
>> arbitrary limitation.
>>
>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/dynamic_class_constant_fetch
>>
>> Please let me know if you have any thoughts.
>>
>
> What's the problem with using
constant() for this?
>
> Marco Pivetta
>
> https://twitter.com/Ocramius
>
> https://ocramius.github.io/
As it says right in the RFC:
// This:
echo Foo::{$bar};
// is way more convenient than this mess:
echo constant(Foo::class . '::' . $bar);
This is something people have mentioned a number of times with enums and dynamic case references,
and seems like a good small cleanup.
--Larry Garfield