Re: Re: New Feature: Fully qualified class name resolution as scalar with class keyword

Hi! > I tend to agree. __CLASS__ to me belongs to the family of constants > like __DIR__ and __FILE__ where they are meant to be evaluated in-place > and are simply a substitution for something completely static. But that's exactly what Foo::class is - completely static constant. > In my mind, while Foo::class returns a scalar, it is subject to > resolution by use statements generally at the top of a file or namespace > declaration and is computed based on what namespace it is in and what > use statements affect it. In the same vein you could say class statements affect __CLASS__ :). They are both compile-time constants. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227