Static method call with single colon results in fatal error, not a parse error?
| From: | Bishop Bettini | Date: | Tue, 12 May 2015 18:44:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Static method call with single colon results in fatal error, not a parse error? | ||
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class Foo {
public static function bar() { echo 'bar'; }
}
Foo:bar();
Note the single colon. According to 3v4l <http://3v4l.org/Ot3Fk>...
5.2.17 and earlier:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':'
5.3 and later, including 7 and HHVM:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function bar()
Is this really a run-time fatal error? Unless I missed a memo, surely this
should be a compile time error.