Re: [patch] Late static bindings (LSB)

----- Original Message ----- From: "Stanislav Malyshev" <stas@zend.com> To: "Baptiste Autin" <fjas@free.fr> Cc: "'Zoe Slattery'" <zoe.slattery@googlemail.com>; "'Dmitry Stogov'" <dmitry@zend.com>; "'Marcus Boerger'" <helly@php.net>; "'Lukas Kahwe Smith'" <mls@pooteeweet.org>; "'Michael Lively'" <m@digitalsandwich.com>; "'Etienne Kneuss'" <colder@php.net>; <internals@lists.php.net>; "'Andi Gutmans'" <andi@zend.com> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 3:39 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [patch] Late static bindings (LSB)

Couldn't I write: isset(static::$structure) ?

You could, but that's only runtime. People generally prefer compile-time control which is derived from definition rather than per-instance runtime control (implementing interface vs. checking each time if class has certain methods).

So this will be my very last (and so much naïve) question: do you know how people cope with it in other OO languages?

AFAIK there are not many languages which allow you to do non-static static calls... I see no way of doing it in Java or C++ - please correct me if I'm wrong.

The only languages I have seen that allow things like this seem to trend more towards prototype based languages. Though it may very well be that I don't know what terminology to look for. The very phrase late static binding is an oxymoron of sorts :). In any case I do want to be sure to say that just because the exact concept is lacking in Java and C++ that is not a reason to discount it entirely.

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