Hi internals! I want to revive an old patch I was working on last year, and open for discussion the last missing piece to make it fully complete, allowing me to write a RFC.
Link to patch introducing support to private classes: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/947 Currently, there's no way to determine at runtime what is the scope of the execution. This means you can't resolve if the current instruction is happening on a top-level scope, in a class definition, namespace, function or method. Together with this (maybe even more importantly), there's no way to resolve namespaces in any way, since they only exist up to compile time (they become part of class name through string append), and no real data structure around it exists. I was forced to create a weird string check to make it work... =( I wonder what would be necessary to make this patch possible, if there's any interest to move this forward and potentially target it for 7.1 release. Regards, -- Guilherme Blanco MSN: guilhermebla...@hotmail.com GTalk: guilhermeblanco Toronto - ON/Canada
