Re: [RFC] Static classes (Was Abstract final classes)

PR with this feature request: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/929 On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1 December 2014 20:30:46 GMT, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > > > > The problem is that, well, global state is rarely a good thing, I don’t > think we should be encouraging it. > > To get a bit philosophical: Is it really the language's job to make that > decision? Is there a difference between "encouraging", "allowing", and > "enabling"? > > Purely static classes are a reality whether this feature is added or not. > They do things namespaces can't (and probably shouldn't), but are simpler > to work with than singletons (which they closely resemble) or full-blown > Dependency Injection. Declaring a static class is just a way of > acknowledging that this is a deliberate decision, and instance members > should not be added. > > Regards, > -- > Rowan Collins > [IMSoP] > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Guilherme Blanco MSN: guilhermeblanco@hotmail.com GTalk: guilhermeblanco Toronto - ON/Canada