note 83638 added to language.oop5.late-static-bindings

I think this will be pretty helpful too. My question is, can just 'static' by itself resolve to the late static class? I ask this because it could help in making new instances of the derived class, from a base class, by calling a derived class's static method instead of having to create a new instance of the derived class - or explicitly defining a 'getClass' method for each derived class. Example: <?php //There isn't really any purpose for this example I posted //Just a random implementation class Base { static function useful() { //Create a list of instances of the derived class $list=array(); for ($i=0;$i<10;$i++) $list[]=new static(); //Here's the point in question return $list; } } class Derived extends Base { static function somethingElse() { //... $list=static::useful(); } } ?> I'm not sure what kind of lexical / whatever-it's-called problems this would make with parsing. I don't think it could really collide with any contexts where you would use static otherwise - variable / method declaration. Even more so, is there a way to get the class's name to which the keywords 'self', 'parent', or 'static' refer? Example: <?php class Base { static function stuff() { echo "Self: ".get_class(self); echo "Parent: ".get_class(parent); echo "Derived: ".get_class(static); } } class Derived extends Base { static function stuff() { static::stuff(); } } ?> I don't think there should be a massive bloat in the PHP core to support all of this, but it would be nice to take advantage of the dynamic nature of PHP. And yet another side note: If you're in the instance-level scope in a method of a base, and you want to get a top-level static, here's an ugly workaround (from Thacmus /lib/core.php - see SVN repo): <?php //Get reference [?] to static from class //$class - Class name OR object (uses get_class()) //$var - Not gonna say function& get_static($class,$var) { //'static_get'? if (!is_string($class)) $class=get_class($class); if (!@property_exists($class,$var)) { trigger_error("Static property does not exist: $class::\$$var"); //debug_callstack(); //This is just a wrapper for debug_backtrace() for HTML return null; } //Store a reference so that the base data can be referred to //The code [[ return eval('return &'.$class.'::$'.$var.';') ]] does not work - can not return references... //To establish the reference, use [[ $ref=&get_static(...) ]] eval('$temp=&'.$class.'::$'.$var.';'); //using return $temp; } ?> ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 74.192.115.3 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.late-static-bindings.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/83638 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83638/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83638/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83638/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83638/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83638/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83638/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83638 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/83638 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php