Re: fatal static call in php 6.0?
| From: | Jasper Bryant-Greene | Date: | Thu, 25 May 2006 22:08:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: fatal static call in php 6.0? | ||
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Edin Kadribasic wrote:
> 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]?
>
> You don't need to create an object to make a static call.
> MyClass::MyFunc() works without objects, which is much faster than
> creating an instance and then invoking a method on it.
Exactly. You just gave an advantage of calling a static method using a
static call over a non-static call.
Now back to my original question, which actually relates to the OP's
question: what advantage do you get calling a static method using a
non-static call over a static call?
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