Re: fatal static call in php 6.0?

From:	Christian Schneider	Date:	Thu, 25 May 2006 13:42:35 +0000
Subject:	Re: fatal static call in php 6.0?
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Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:

Christian Schneider wrote:
PS: There are no plans to make non-static calls to static methods illegal, right?
What is the point in that? What advantage do you get using $this->someMethodName() [non-static call] over self::someMethodName() [static call]?

self:: does not exist in PHP 4. So $this is probably used by some people to avoid <classname>:: which is ugly. While this might not be the best reason to do it it is still a real world fact. - Chris