Re: Re: Static weirdness..

On Friday 20 February 2004 20:23, Herr Witten wrote: > Well, calling a static method from an instance breaks down the logic. > If it is static, then the instance has absolutely no bearing when > calling it. Therefore, it logically makes sense to call only from the > class name. > > Moreover, making a distinction between the method calling syntax begins > to make the distinction between class objects and instance objects. I > have a class which deals directly with classes and their static methods > as if they are objects. This is a powerful notion that still needs more > support in the Zend engine. > > The call for static method should be: > > ClassName->method(); > > Herr Witten > > > C++ allows $a->bar() when bar() is a static method (yes, it is called > > in a static context there too). > > > > IMO, there should be no error, warning or notice here. Regardless of the final implementation, I think access to static methods and static class variables should be consistent. Currently, you cannot access a class variable via an object instance. And for what it's worth, I see no reason why static methods cannot be called from objects. Follow Java/C++ in this case.