RE: [PHP4BETA] calling member in parent class

I'm sorry if my "tone" was not obvious. I meant that not being able to have a keyword is really not a problem at all, that is, you extend the parent in the same module, it's pretty obvious what the name of the parent is. > The big deal is that we want to start a code freeze and > making such "not > big deal" patches always ends up taking some time to stabilize. > If you desperately need this functionality you can probably use > get_parent_class() concat it with a "::method()" string and > then eval() it. > That is kind of messed up and slow so I suggest to find a > different way > until we add this functionality. > > Andi > > At 11:32 PM 2/3/00 -0500, Dan wrote: > >Have to drop my .02: You extend the parent class, you damn > well better know > >the name of the parent class - what's the big deal? > > > >Dan Sevush > >CTO DansChocolates.com > >happily running PHP4 b2 on six dual CPU boxes > > > > > > > > Parent is not a keyword > > > > > > > > > >Could it be turned into a keyword to avoid hard-coding the > > > name of the > > > > >parent class into the code? > > > > > > > > We can put this on our TODO but we really want to > > > code-freeze Zend now. > > > > > > Ok, put it on the TODO then. > > > > > >-- > >PHP 4.0 Beta Mailing List > ><http://www.php.net/version4/> > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php4beta-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > >For additional commands, e-mail: php4beta-help@lists.php.net > >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php4beta-admin@lists.php.net > > --- > Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> > http://www.zend.com/ >