Re: [VOTE] ::class feature to resolve namespaced class names to scalars

Hi! >>> I would expect $variable::class to work (like late static bindings). What this would mean? ClassName::class has a clear meaning - ClassName is a name of the class (possibly aliased) and class is the property of this class, namely its full name. However I do not see how $variable::class can do anything meaningful. Since namespace resolution is static compile-time, $variable can not be anything but the full name of the class, so what $variable::class supposed to do? Just be equal to $variable? What's the point of such operation, what may be achieved by it? Reference to "late static binding" is even more confusing - if you mean that $variable is object, then the binding is not "static" - since you have an object - and you have perfectly good get_class($variable) to do that. Is that what you were meaning? -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227