Re: Proposal for new construct: nameof

From: Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:30:53 +0000
Subject: Re: Proposal for new construct: nameof
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Hi. Stan Vassilev | FM wrote:
I suggest we introduce a new construct which will return a string when passed any identifier to resolve against the current file's use clauses: nameof Symbol\Name; ...
NOTE: As a side effect this means less direct writing of string function/class names, and less complaints about \ being the escape characters.
Oh, that sounds very good. We do a lot of getComponent($classname) stuff, that would be awesome in that context. Regards, Karsten

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