Re: New exceptions mechanism

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 06:12:41PM +0100, Ferdinand Beyer wrote : > On 3 Feb 2004 at 17:34, Markus Fischer wrote: > > > However, shouldn't the context be enough, from which a > function is > > called, so the stack trace displays the information right? > > This is my guess: > In your example staticMethod() is not regarded as a _static_ > function. Instead, PHP runs it in the InstanciateMe-object's scope as > if it would belong to the InstanciateMe class. If you try to access $this > in staticMethod() it will certainly be the same as $obj. > > This behavior is needed to access overwritten methods from the > parent class. In my opinion, it should not work for foreign classes, > though. Point taken. I can definitely live by the additional static keyword anyway. thanks, - Markus