On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > Hi! > >> May I suggest using foo::__CLASS__ instead of foo::class ? It's longer, but >> closer to what already exists for this semantic (class name as string), >> don't you think ? > > I like this. __CLASS__ is already being used as class name, and little > chance of colliding with some code since you're not supposed to be using > __ prefix in your names. >From the collisions point of view `class` and `__CLASS__` are equally safe. They both are lexer keywords, so it's not possible to declare constants with them as name.
Imho ClassName::class reads nicer and also looks similar to the similar ClassName.class syntax in Java. Nikita -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
