RE: [PHP-DEV] [patch] Late static bindings (LSB)

>__CLASS__ returns name of the class, get_parent_class() is the name of >parent class, those are entirely different things, nothing to do with >compiler/run time. Class always has one name and one parent or none. Sorry, I meant: __CLASS__ and get_class($this) They are both different things, and they can return different values. Like someone said it earlier, __CLASS__ is deterministic: you know its value at compile. get_class($this) is not : you cannot guess its value before run time. >What do you mean by "RELATIVE"? I mean, when you want to go upwards, to reach an ancestor class. I think there is an ambiguity: for you, ::parent always means the parent of __CLASS__ But it could also mean: the parent of "get_class($this)", in the mind of a programmer. And under certain conditions, like the one I explained, you cannot use parent:: for that ; I must use a lot of "get_class()" and laborious turnarounds to get what I want. Baptiste