..oO(Jeremy)

>I was reading through the manual looking for other things, and I
>stumbled on this new entry in the OOP5 documentation:
>
>http://www.php.net/manual/en/languag...c-bindings.php

This and namespaces are the two most important new features in PHP 5.3
that were "backported" from PHP 6.

>This is really awesome, and solves a lot of redundant redefinitions I've
>had to do in child classes. I just wanted to alert anyone who is
>unaware (as I was) of this new feature that's coming in 5.3. Now I'm
>pretty stoked on 5.3 being released

Should be around April or May, AFAIK.

>(although even when it is released,
>it will be ages before it makes it into debian stable. D'oh!)

Compile your own, it's not that difficult. I'm already playing around
with a 5.3 snapshot, but there are still some nasty bugs in it ...

Micha