Hi,

On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 15:37 +0200, Johannes Ott wrote:
> finally I managed to do my first RFC draft.
> 
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/static_class_constructor
> 
> I hope I have done everything correct so far and I'm looking forward to
> your feedback on it.

In my opinion this makes the language way more complex as there are more
places which "suddenly" execute code but solves a small problem compared
to that. (Which actually is an issue many people would suggest to avoid
completely instead of ennobling this with a language feature.

Why am I saying it makes the language more complex? - Your proposal
seems to miss mentioning when exactly the method is executed. what is
the output of


a.php:
<?php
echo 'A: '.__FILE__.':'.__LINE__."\n";
class A {
    static function __static() {
      echo __CLASS__.'::'.__METHOD__."\n";
    }
}
echo 'B: '.__FILE__.':'.__LINE__."\n";
class B {
    static function __static() {
      echo __CLASS__.'::'.__METHOD__."\n";
    }
}
echo 'C: '.__FILE__.':'.__LINE__."\n";
?>

b.php:
<?php
echo 'D: '.__FILE__.':'.__LINE__."\n";

C::$foo = 23;
echo 'E: '.__FILE__.':'.__LINE__."\n";

include 'a.php';
echo 'F: '.__FILE__.':'.__LINE__."\n";


class C {
    static $foo = 0;
    static function __static() {
      echo __CLASS__.'::'.__METHOD__."\n";
    }
}

echo 'G: '.__FILE__.':'.__LINE__."\n";

class D extends B {
    static function __static() {
      echo __CLASS__.'::'.__METHOD__."\n";
    }
}

echo 'H: '.__FILE__.':'.__LINE__."\n";
?>


Mind that in b.php we make use of class C above the declaration, which
we can do as C is a simple class and can be bound early during
compilation. Class D however can only be bound during run-time, after
including a.php, which happens after C was already used.

johannes

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