avoid making developers traverse the entire class/interface hierarchy
before they can figure out whether a class is instantiable
(ok, so it makes sense :)
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).
We need separate cleanup stage because of the following problem:
Suppose we destroy class X, which destroys function table,
and in function table we have function foo() that has static $bar. Now if
object of class X was assigned to $bar, its destructor will be called and will
fail since X's function table is in mid-destruction.
So we want first of all to clean up all data and then move to tables
destruction.
Note that only run-time accessed data need to be cleaned up, pre-defined
data can not contain objects and thus are not probelmatic.
# Looks like we are having a lots of pain in the various parts of the body
# because of the destructors...
This opcode is not executeable but only holds data for opcodes
that need more than two arguments (presently only ASSIGN_OBJ and the ilk but
in the future also ASSIGN_DIM)
NOTE: This only works at the syntax level right now (parser). It
doesn't actually work as of yet - all statics are considered
public for now
- Prevent users from putting more restrictions on methods in derived classes
(i.e., you cannot make a public method private in a derived class, etc.)
- Implement abstract methods, syntax:
- abstract function foo($vars);
- I don't see any reason why modifiers such as static/public need to be
- used with abstract. PHP is weakly typed and there would be no meaning to
- this anyway. People who want a strictly typed compiled language are
- looking in the wrong place.
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.
- global function information because it wasn't available. We have to do
- an additional assignment per-function call so that it'll be available.
- Also don't define the global scope as function name _main_ but leave it
- empty so that frameworks like Pear can decide what they want to do.
- understand why Java didn't do so.
- If you still want to control destruction of your object then either make
- sure you kill all references or create a destruction method which you
- call yourself.
