Re: Static method call syntax on objects

Hello, On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 22:20, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > Hi! > > On 8/10/11 1:12 PM, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: >> >>   Is this exepcted behaviour? >> >>     ➜  ~  cat test.php >>     <?php >>     class Foo { >>         public static function bar() { >>             print __METHOD__ . "\n"; >>         } >>     } >> >>     $foo = new Foo; >>     $foo::bar(); >> >> >>     ➜  ~  php test.php >>     Foo::bar >> >>   I, for one, was surprised that this does what it does with PHP 5.3 and >>   PHP 5.4 (do not have older version of PHP hand). >> > > This is how FETCH_CLASS works now - when it has an object in where it > expects class name, it uses object's class. We could call toString() instead > but that might be even more surprising. Well, FETCH_CLASS has always worked like that, but previously (<5.3) variables for class references were only allowed as part of the "new" statement, e.g. new $obj; The semantic remains the same, only that now variables are also allowed for :: calls (since 5.3). > -- > Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect > SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ > (408)454-6900 ext. 227 > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Etienne Kneuss http://www.colder.ch