hello all, this is my maiden voyage on the internals list. recently i have discovered functionality that existed in php-5.2.4 that missing in php-5.2.5 and also php-5.2.6_rc3. i have posted to the php-general list and to the php-qa list and not received any sort of feedback about this discovery. primarily, in php-5.2.4 variables could be used to hold the name of a class and used to access static members (both attributes and methods) as well as constants. there was other related support as well. please see the archived post on the qa list for details, http://marc.info/?l=php-qa&m=120901795414161&w=2 there you will see i have prepared phpt tests and run them on php-5.2.4 and php-5.2.6_rc3 installs.
im curious if support was intentionally removed or if it was an oversight? if so, is this something that could be forward ported from php-5.2.4? i would be willing to work on a patch if that were the case. thanks, -nathan
