Hi, The feature specified by Chris remind me the "metaclass" extension system of Groovy language (I am not a Groovy Expert, but properties seems similar).
+1 for this kind of feature at a language level, IMHO it will really help for Aspect Oriented Programming, Legacy Code Refactoring, Unit Testing (Mocking mecanism). > Gwynne already referred to Runkit, which gives you all the tools you need. > IMHO Language-level features are much more appreciated in facts, and Professionals pratices-required features (AOP, unit-test...) should be language-level (in order for pratices to become more popular) However, since monkey-patching isn't something generally appreciate, I > wouldn't go with promoting it to the language level. Instead, some Runkit > functionality could be OO-ified and integrated into the Reflection API > (somewhere along the lines of [2] perhaps). > +1 > A technical issue with your proposal you do not address are conflicts. > What happens when two classes overload the same class? > Why "including/parsing" order should not be taken into account ? Beside that, the best thing you could to for the moment is to convince the > Zend framework guys to read up about Open Implementations[3]. > Thanks for the link(s) ! -- Olivier Hoareau PHP Best Pratices Evanglist Bordeaux, France
