Re: RFC: short and inner classes

Hi On 3/6/25 20:08, Niels Dossche wrote:

What I'm less in favor of is the implementation choice to expose the inner class as a property/const and using a fetch mode to grab it. That feels quite weird to me honestly. How did you arrive at this choice?

Somewhat relatedly, the RFC does not mention how the choice of :: as the separator interacts with the following features (i.e. what will the result of each of the statements be):

    Closure::fromCallable('Outer::Inner::method');
    new ReflectionMethod('Outer::Inner::method');
    defined('Outer::Inner');
    constant('Outer::Inner');
    $inner = 'Inner';
    Outer::{$inner};

… and any other meta-programming functionality working on class constants or static methods. Also, what will happen for:

    class P {
        class Inner { }
    }

    class C extends P {
         const Inner = 'x';
    }

(and vice versa) Best regards Tim Düsterhus