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Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:19:34 +0000

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By: Tudor

Tudor — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:27:55 +0000

Interesting, that might work…

By: gphilip

gphilip — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:51:03 +0000

Wow, this is weird, but I can imagine an excellent use, which is an implementation of multiple inheritance.

By: Tudor

Tudor — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:26:57 +0000

@scribu I mean that this is obviously by design…

By: scribu

scribu — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:10:52 +0000

BTW, you should style the blockquotes in your comments.

By: scribu

scribu — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:10:12 +0000

@Andy Roberts Call me old fashioned, but if you call a method statically you shouldn’t have the $this pointer in its body.

As a counter example, think about parent::some_method(). You use the static resolution operator there too.

Either way, really strange.

What do you mean by “It’s too well supported to be a bug…” ?

By: Tudor

Tudor — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:01:36 +0000

But it doesn’t throw a runtime error. It substitutes $this with the caller object. Weird…

And PHP 4 died out like 4 years ago…let’s move on people

By: Ionut G. Stan

Ionut G. Stan — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:49:48 +0000

It’s not a bug, it’s just a remnant of the PHP 4 era when there was no explicit declaration for static methods. You simply called it statically and expect a runtime error if someone use $this inside that method.

By: Tudor

Tudor — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:59:09 +0000

It’s too well supported to be a bug…

By: Mihai Brehar

Mihai Brehar — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:44:39 +0000

Maybe you should fill a bug report