Re: Proposal: use SomeClass::staticMethod

Hi, because it fits into the context (even if it's slightly offtopic): Can I throw in, that I would like to see autoloading for functions? :) Regards, Sebastian 2012/8/15 Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:59 PM, 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() > > fooBar(); // would call Some\Foo::bar() > > > > 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". > > > > Aliasing class constants like that would also be very nice. > > > > What does everyone think? > > I have the suspicion that you are just using static methods as a way > to group functions into a "namespace". If that's what you want, then > why not just use namespaced functions for that? Should be a lot less > confusing and also semantically more correct. > > Nikita > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >