Re: static constructor

> On 12 Mar 2015, at 02:21, Johannes Ott <mail@deroetzi.de> wrote: > > So now I want to do my first own proposal for a new function in PHP and > I hope doing it right with starting a discussion here first. > > The purpose of this suggestion is to introduce a static constructor, > which is called before the first call to class either static or > non-static to initialize some static properties which are needed by the > class. > > I think about two different possible syntax to realize that purpose: > > Version 1 (similar to Java): > > class A { > private static $var; > > static { > //Do some code here to initialize self::$var; > } > > } > > Version 2 (a new magic method): > > class B { > private static $var; > > private static function __static() { > //Do some code here to initialize self::$var; > } > } > > My prefered code would be version 2 at the moment. > > Looking forward to your feedback, What about inheritance? I think dynamic class-constructor would make much more sense. A function which can analyse real class and do initialisation. class A { protected static function __class_construct() { echo get_called_class().” class is defined\n"; } } class B extends A { } #### output #### A class is defined B class is defined -- Alexey Zakhlestin https://github.com/indeyets PGP key: http://indeyets.ru/alexey.zakhlestin.pgp.asc