Re: [PHP4BETA] zend engine does not provide full variable reference for variable functions

Of course, I agree in every point, but It would be great to convert this single token into multiple tokens to make calling methods of objects easier. $this->§$str could expand internally to $this->db->hello->test-> show() for example or any other syntax that would make change without breaking compatibility to Php3...

$str would return "db->query", which is a single token, its not evaluated and the '->' in "db->query" coming from $str is not treated as a class member pointer. And that is the expected behaviour. BTW, eval() isn't slow as you think. Perhaps the manual could use some extended eval() examples! Faisal

andré