[wp-hackers] Coding Standards: Functions vs. Classes

[Braydon]

On 03/18/2012 11:39 AM, scribu wrote:
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> Notice the additional boilerplate that this requires. The only advantage of
> a static class variable would be that you can make it private.
Post as a class has more advantages, especially if it were to include 
all template tags for posts. It could be $post->excerpt() instead of 
the_excert() and you know it can only be the except of that post and not 
from the global state of $post. Would be one less point of confusion to 
not stumble on, especially if you're new and haven't yet figured out 
that the global $post is super important.