On 11/19/07, Lukas Kahwe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 19.11.2007, at 14:05, Alexey Zakhlestin wrote: > > > On 11/19/07, Lukas Kahwe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I think the point of Stas reply was to use self:: instead of > >> parent::. > > > > how would self help? that would mean calling this exact method, not > > the method of parent-class > > that way you could add the class name as a second parameter to the > parent method, without having to type it out in every call. Anyways, > I think the current situation is quite clear to me. then again, I > forgot if we also added new magic constants to go along with > __CLASS__ for this (aka __SELF__)?
that's possible, but some more "magic" seems to be "natural" here. As I and several others proposed earlier the best option would be: parent::method() thinks it is the same class as a caller ClassName::method() thinks it is ClassName this would be the least-surprise situation -- Alexey Zakhlestin http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
