Am 02.09.2019 um 17:01 schrieb Dan Ackroyd <dan...@basereality.com>:
> Also(, without checking to see if it's feasible,) to me a less
> surprising approach would be to allow static and instance methods to
> be declared separately with the same method name.
>
> class Foo {
> static function loadXml() {
> echo "I am static method\n";
> }
>
> function loadXml() {
> echo "I am instance method\n";
> }
> }
I was considering this approach but that is a special case of Ad hoc
polymorphism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hoc_polymorphism).
And that's a path I don't want to go down, I don't think that's a good fit for
PHP.
It felt more natural to model it similarly to nullable return types.
- Chris
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