Re: Re: Static weirdness..

Timm Friebe wrote:

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 18:40, Hans Lellelid wrote:

foreach($entities as $ent) { $peer = $ent->getPeer(); // e.g. might be BookPeer $peer->doSelect(new Criteria()); //static: BookPeer::doSelect() }

$m= new Reflection_Method($ent->getPeer(), 'doSelect'); $m->invoke(NULL, new Criteria()); /* untested */

Yeah, I'm sure there's a way to get something like that to work also. I'm not sure that's prefereable to call_user_func(), honestly -- and it doesn't get around the basic problem which is that calling code needs to know whether methods are static. I guess I'm not sure why this is necessary ... As Hartmut & Lukas mention, I don't know why the class consumer *needs* to know that it's static. Clearly internally there should be no possibility of referencing $this. Also in my example the entire class is static -- i.e. all methods are static -- but what about cases where one or two methods in a class are static. Now $a->methodName() will work for most but all of a sudden you have to do $a::staticMethodName() for the static members. What I see as the workaround is creating static methods that aren't marked as static -- e.g. that would address the issue in my example above. I think that's a lot worse than allowing invocation of static methods using instances, however, because I do want developers who read the API docs to know these are static functions. Hans