Re: Re: PHP6 just became my worst nightmare.

hi Derick, Derick Rethans wrote:

Jochem Maas wrote:

apparently calling a dynamic function using static syntax will cause an E_FATAL.

? That's just how OO design works... If you have a non-static method you can always have a $this-> lingering in there. Now, if you call this method with the static syntax, $this suddenly doesn't exist... Design wise trying to do something like this is just fundamentally wrong. That it was supported in PHP 5 can be considered as the bug and it was just fixed...

thank you for replying, much appreciated. given the ammount of time I have to fix my code I think I'll be able to figure out a way to refactor my code :-) I just had a bit of a meltdown, thought that I had 2.5 years worth of code development go down the drain and needed to vent (well maybe not 'needed'). I still have plenty to learn, it's hard to keep up with the amazing stuff you guys are producing (and all to easy to get 'it' wrong). as a average joe php programmer It was quite painful to go thru all the BC breaking changes that occured going from php5beta2 to php5.1.2 - somethings still irk me (like the array_merge() changes) because I don't really see the point ... but I understand that alot of changes really were improvements. and obviously you devs are also humans so the occasional oversight and mistake can be expected - it must be hard developing software thats being jumped on and used by so many people (once functionality is out there - whether it's considered broken or not - it's difficult to get it back in the bag!) again thanks for your reply, and keep up the good work - I for one am very much looking forward to the new date functionality, unicode (although it scares me ****less - I guess I read too much internals mail that I don't fully understand ;-) , static late binding and all the other great stuff that's coming our way! kind regards, Jochem.