Dragan Stanojevic - Nevidljivi wrote:

Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:

On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 01:02 +0200, Dragan Stanojevic - Nevidljivi wrote:
[snip]
and it works fine, I cannot define a constant by expression, like:

class Foo {
   const AAA = 1 << 0;
   const BBB = 1 << 1;
   const CCC = 1 << 2;
   const DDD = 1 << 3;
}

Well now, is this a bug, and I should file it, or is it, and why, normal?


Not a bug. Read manual.

From http://php.net/oop5.constants comes the following:

Oh, thanks Jasper...

Pitty though, code would be a lot cleaner if the constant setting would allow it (put evaluated value in constant).

bye,
N::

That constant is the same throughout all instances of the object, So you can't calculate the value based on instantiated info.

Though I suppose you could make an argument for using expressions that consist of only constant values.

Chris

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