Re: New exceptions mechanism

Hello Markus, Tuesday, February 3, 2004, 6:19:59 PM, you wrote: > 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 You should enable E_STRICT severity by error_reporting: E_ALL|E_STRICT when developing new things. Besides from that the behavior is needed for BC reasons only. -- Best regards, Marcus mailto:helly@php.net