On 31 May 2013, at 12:22, Richard Quadling <rquadling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 31 May 2013 12:17, shiplu <shiplu.net@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Stuart Dallas <stuart@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> That is not entirely correct. It must be a literal value. The expression 'a'.'b' is a constant value. >>> I may be being overly picky here, but I think it's an important distinction. >> >> I thought 'a'. 'b' is a constant expression and 'ab' is a constant value. Correct me if I am wrong. >> > Literals only is OK. Was/is there plans to allow constant expressions? I believe it's been discussed a few times but I think it's highly unlikely due to the way the engine works. As I said in my reply to shiplu, class constants and member variables are defined not evaluated, so making expressions possible is a fairly major modification for, what I see as fairly minimal benefit. There's definitely an argument to be made that a class definition should not contain anything that needs to be evaluated. I certainly see it as breaking the basics of object oriented design. > It just made me wonder if I was doing something wrong. Technically you were, but nobody died so it's ok :) -Stuart -- Stuart Dallas 3ft9 Ltd http://3ft9.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
