MB>>Adding an argument would be a major BC but sure is_null($this) would work, MB>>only it would be another big slowdown.
I don't think 2-3 additional opcodes are a "big" slowdown - if you are using non-default ctors and accessors anyway, you probably are doing something order of magnitude bigger there, not to mention PHP function call is costly by itself. As for BC - I think it can be made so it would accept old code too, and some set of rules could be made about when to call what - e.g., basing on number of arguments. If, of course, the whole thing is needed anyway :) MB>>__static_construct would be called the first time the class is going to be MB>>used. The idea doen't seem appealing to me... I wonder why one would need such tricks and why one won't use more civilized way of doing things - like appropriate patterns which don't have to require such magic. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zend.com/ +972-3-6139665 ext.115 -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
