Class constant in a string in PHP

Question

My reading of the manual (the bit just before the section heading \"String access and modification by character\") is that you can do some fancy tricks with class constants and

Answer 1

The curly syntax only works for 'variable expressions'. And you need anything that you can access with {$.

Oh, there's only that workaround:

    $c = "constant";
    return "Twelve in decimal is {$c('c::k')}.";

Which is obviously not much shorter or more readable than just using string concatenation here.