Hello,
if I understand you correctly, you want to radically change the behavior of
self:: ?
This is not doable as it would break tons of scripts!
Regards
On 9/27/07, Baptiste Autin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >People generally prefer compile-time
> >control which is derived from definition rather than per-instance
> >runtime control (implementing interface vs. checking each time if class
> >has certain methods).
>
> It's me again, sorry.
> So, if I understand you well, Stanislas, you are personally not much into
> "static::" but more into making that sort of code working :
>
> interface iC {
> public $structure;
> }
> abstract class A implements iC {
> public function display() {
> echo self::$structure;
> }
> }
> class B extends A {
> static public $structure = "This is a string.";
> }
> $b = new B();
> $b->display();
>
>
> If so, what's the problem?
> Is there a technical difficulty of implementation behind?
> Or is it because we are unsure whether all the people asking for "LSB"
> would
> be satisfied with that way?
>
> BTW, here's a funny sort of polymorphism with static members that already
> runs great with the actual PHP release:
>
> interface iC {
> function getStructure();
> }
> abstract class A implements iC {
> public function display() {
> echo $this->getStructure();
> }
> }
> abstract class B extends A {
> static public $structure = "This is a string from B.";
> }
> class C extends B {
> static public $structure = "This is a string from C.";
> public function getStructure() {
> return self::$structure;
> }
> }
> $c = new C();
> $c->display();
>
> Remove the definition of $structure in C, and the one in B will apply.
> I suppose Michael Lively's example would be solved (the one with the
> TableSelectQueries), if it could work the same way in a fully static
> context
> (and without the help of an additional method like getStructure)
> ... Right ?
>
> Baptiste
>
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