Re: Proposal: use SomeClass::staticMethod

Comments inline. On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Giedrius Dubinskas <d.giedrius@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Internals! > > I'm just on and off luker here but thought I'll throw in an idea for a > feature I'd love to see in PHP: aliasing static methods. > > Syntax would look something like this: > > use Namespaced\SomeClass::staticMethod; > use Some\Foo::bar as fooBar; > > staticMethod(); // would call Namespaced\SomeClass::staticMethod() Then you're confusing the reader, they think you're calling a function, but you're actually calling a class method. Confusion++ > fooBar(); // would call Some\Foo::bar() What if a function called staticMethod() already exists, there'd be a bunch of confusion on referring to the right one. > > This would make code more readable, by removing the the noise of > repetition of class names. For use cases we can look at Java use cases > for "import static". When you find a function call, you'd have to scroll up to the top of the page to see if it's actually a method alias. In this case being explicit is a good thing, no scrolling, no confusion. > > Aliasing class constants like that would also be very nice. > > What does everyone think? > Would it be possible in PHP? > > -- > Giedrius Dubinskas Not that I don't welcome your suggestions, I encourage them, but for this paritcular one I vote -1 on it. Thanks. > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >