On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Tom Oram <t...@scl.co.uk> wrote:

> I've just been looking back at the history of this previous conversation...
>
> http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=132673741606531&w=2
>
> as a mockist tester I'd really REALLY like to see this be possible but I
> can see the problem with the original patch modifying the actual existing
> class.
>
> One solution I propose is rather than modify it would it be possible for
> the reflection class to be able to duplicate the class with the finals
> removed so something like this could be possible:
>
> final class A
> {
> }
>
> $r = new ReflectionClass('A');
>
> $r->defineExtendableClass('ExtendableA');
>
> class MockA extends ExtendabledA
> {
> }
>
> I'm unfamiliar with the PHP codebase so I thought I'd just ask here to find
> out if it sounds possible before diving into the code
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>

apart from the thread you linked, we also touched this topic in the
following pull request:
https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/733

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