1. Nested classes are gone.
2. New syntax for namespaces:
namespace foo {
class X { ... }
function bar { ... }
var x = 1;
const ZZ = 2;
}
3. Namespaced symbol access: $x = new foo::X; - etc.
For now, namespaces are case insensitive, just like classes.
Also, there can be no global class and namespace with the same name
(to avoid ambiguities in :: resolution).
This should work as follows: if class hasn't member with given name,
__get/__set is called. If class has no method with given name, __call is called.
__get/__set are not recursive, __call can be.
- some fixes by me).
- You can't access protected variables from outside the object. If you want
- to see a protected member from your ancestors you need to declare the
- member as protected in the class you want to use it in. You can't
- redeclare a protected variable as private nor the other way around.
There are still a few problems such as includes and calling other functions
from internal functions which aren't seen (will have to think if and how to
fix this).
Also the main scripts filename isn't available. Need to think about that.
- Change zval's refcount to zend_uint (If it doesn't slow down the Engine
- too much it should probably stay this way). If anyone has time to test
- the difference in speed between zend_ushort & zend_uint in zend.h of
- the struct _zval_struct (one line change) I'd be glad to get some
- figures.
Note: only standard Zend objects are working now. This is definitely going to
break custom objects like COM, Java, etc. - this will be fixed later.
Also, this may break other things that access objects' internals directly.
- will actually work well in the context of PHP so we should consider this
- as experimental. Possible problems might be that when the constructor is
- run PHP might not be in a stable state.