Re: Anonymous functions inside static methods.

> > Another option is to implicitly promote closures inside of static contexts > > to be also be static; this is basically what HHVM does. > PHP does this! That's why you get 'Cannot bind an instance to a static > closure' if you closure->bindTo() inside a static method, even if > the closure itself is not keyworded static. I didn't explain that well enough; I meant that it automatically promotes the closure to be 'static' in that it uses late static binding. > The difference between HHVM and PHP is the default class scope of the > closure. PHP makes the decision that the owning class scope of the > closure is the compile-time class of the parent method. Why this was > done I couldn't say. This is actually the same issue as the one above. Basically the closures aren't respecting late static binding and I am pretty sure it was just an oversight, not a conscious decision.