Re: late static binding php6

Jochem Maas wrote: > Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > >>> Rest assured that this is not the bad kind of 'more complex' I believe >>> >> I'm afraid I must disagree. The feature that was missing was to know the >> true calling class name. That was implemented. You can build from it, >> there's no need to add further complication to the language. You can >> easily find out the calling class for static call, you can easily find >> it's parent, provided one exists, you can easily call any method of this >> class. >> > > class A { > static function find($id) { > // lets try and find a 'something' > } > } > > class B extends A {} > > // I'd like a 'B' please bob. > $b = B::find( 1 ); > > > > are you saying that A::find() can tell that it was called as B::find() ? > No, your example would work. WHere it breaks down is if you want to specialize B::find(); class B extends A { static function find($id) { /* do something special */ parent::find($id); } } in that situation A::find(); would not be able to know it was being called by B::find() because parent:: is considered an explicit class name reference.