note 87588 deleted from language.oop5.cloning by danbrown
| From: | danbrown@php.net | Date: | Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:47:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 87588 deleted from language.oop5.cloning by danbrown | ||
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Note Submitter: James
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The wbcarts example has nothing to do with cloning and really should be removed. It's simply an
example of using the static keyword. It is not a "fix" for "scaling up" cloning
to thousands of entries. If data can truly be shared by all instances of a class, then make the data
static. If not, then each instance needs a copy.
Trying to do some form of "weak" sharing using static and then only accessing the
instances that are using the static at that time is a sure way to end up with unmaintaintable code.