RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Constant Scalar Expressions
| From: | Patrick Schaaf | Date: | Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:13:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Constant Scalar Expressions | ||
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Am 14.08.2013 13:03 schrieb "Derick Rethans" <derick@php.net>:
>
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, Patrick Schaaf wrote:
>
> > Would this allow using constants, too? Class constants?
> >
> > const FOO = 1;
> > const BAR = self::FOO + 1;
>
> Those are not constants, but expressions which can't be run during
> compile time.
Understood now. Constants are not constants.
Is there a general consensus that just-in-time at-runtime initialization in
these places (as well as for property initializers) is not possible or
desired - or is that just something that would need a lot of thought and
work?
best regards
Patrick