Re: Static properties

Hi Marcus, Marcus Boerger wrote: > There was no endless discussion like we to often do on the list but instead > it was just something we came to agree upon among those implementing it > while implementing it. In other words there was no public discussion whatsoever ;) Well since we're are talking about the future direction of PHP, I guess the question deserves some attention. I strongly disagree with this approach of making PHP more "strict" and static. I really liked its dynamicity and would not like to see it disappear under the pressure from people who think Java or C++ (or any other langauge) are cool. For me *PHP* is the cool language. I would really like to hear what do PHP group members/core developers think about this. >>class foo{}; foo::$bar = 1; > > To cut the story short, any feature might have an advantage for somebody but > also a heavy disadvantage for somebody else. But in the end if we'd agree to > add this feature we#d also end up in supporting interception of static > properties which we probably do not want. Mike has already demonstrated that the patch to implement this particular feature is very simple: http://dev.iworks.at/PATCHES/dyn_static.txt Edin