From:             nightstorm at tlen dot pl
Operating system: 
PHP version:      6CVS-2008-11-25 (CVS)
PHP Bug Type:     Feature/Change Request
Bug description:  Changing static class operator to "->"

Description:
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Hi everyone,

I've recently read about some controversies concerning the new namespace
operator and I noticed a possible solution which I want to share with you.
Unfortunately, it breaks the backward compatibility.

The idea is to use "->" both for normal object and static class element
access, as id does not introduce any ambiguity and can be resolved directly
by the lexical parser:

$variable->field    - object call
$variable->method() - object call
ClassName->field    - static call
ClassName->method() - static call
ClassName->method()->method2()->field - first one is static, the rest are
object calls.

Now "::" can be used as the namespace access operator. I use the same
rules in my template engine to convert the object calls to the PHP syntax
and I'm pretty sure they are correct.


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