On 1 December 2014 20:30:46 GMT, Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> wrote: > > The problem is that, well, global state is rarely a good thing, I don’t think > we should be encouraging it.
To get a bit philosophical: Is it really the language's job to make that decision? Is there a difference between "encouraging", "allowing", and "enabling"? Purely static classes are a reality whether this feature is added or not. They do things namespaces can't (and probably shouldn't), but are simpler to work with than singletons (which they closely resemble) or full-blown Dependency Injection. Declaring a static class is just a way of acknowledging that this is a deliberate decision, and instance members should not be added. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP] -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
