Hello Jason, new doesn't expect a string which a constant in fact is. It expects a class name. Thus the class name cannot be constified. You'd need to use reflection for that: $r = new ReflectionClass($name); $o = $r->newInstance();
best regards marcus Monday, September 19, 2005, 6:58:31 PM, you wrote: > On 9/19/05, Xuefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> wrong list. :) > My question was not "how do I work around this?". I included that in > my original post. My question was "why is it like this?" which I > thought was more germane to the internals list. > An unquoted string would have to first be thought of as the class > name, but if that does not exist, php is not then checking to see if > it is actually a defined constant. > My questions was basically is this a performance issue or just an > undesired behavior for some other reason? > > Regards, > Jason > http://blog.casey-sweat.us/ > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Best regards, Marcus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
