I still fully maintain that entirely static classes is the most useless thing and is just an extremely crude method of hiding global context. We're using PHP 5.3 in the core, might as well just use namespaces at that point, because that's what a static class is: a namespace with global variables and functions. It entirely defeats the purpose of object oriented programming.
Nonetheless, I don't see any other good way to implement Hooks other than as a global state. Even though there are times where hooks are executing in a context, like Daniel said, there are times where they are not, e.g., maintenance scripts or any other place outside the normal request/response workflow. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
