Re: RFC: Traits for PHP
| From: | Stefan Marr | Date: | Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:46:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RFC: Traits for PHP | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 5 | Groups: | php.internals |
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Hi Stanislav,
> > traits the included trait is using). Ok this is the scope. Now we
> > would need to adjust all those method bodies, find all method calls on
> > $this->oldMethodName() and change them to $this->newMethodName().
>
> You can't - PHP has dynamic method resolution (think $this->$foo()).
> Also, it has callbacks - what happens if method is registered as
> callback is renamed?
thanks, this is very good reason not to allow renaming, but aliasing.
:)
Kind Regards
Stefan