Doc #71158 [NEW]: Calling methods with reserved keywords is inconsistent.

From: gregorv at web dot de Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant Package: *General Issues Bug Type: Documentation Problem Bug description:Calling methods with reserved keywords is inconsistent. Description: ------------ Inconsistent parsing errors for using language constructs as functions in combination with magic methods. Calling methods with names of reserved keywords produce a fatal error when called statically like Something::list(), but work perfectly well when doing $something->list(); See code in Test Script. Test script: --------------- class Testing { public function scopeList() { echo "scopeList"; } public function __call($method, $parameters) { if($method == "list") { $this->scopeList(); } } public static function __callStatic($method, $parameters) { $instance = new static; call_user_func_array([$instance, $method], $parameters); } } // Testingg::list() failes; //Testing::list(); $testing = new Testing(); $testing->list(); // this does not -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71158&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=71158&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=71158&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=71158&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=71158&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=71158&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=71158&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=71158&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=71158&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=71158&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=71158&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=71158&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=71158&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=71158&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=71158&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=71158&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=71158&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=71158&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=71158&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=71158&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=71158&r=mysqlcfg