Re: [RFC] Fix inconsistent behavior of $this variable

Hi! > Please review the RFC. > > It proposes to fix all known inconsistencies related to handling of special $this variable. > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/this_var What is the reason behind all these changes? Does it serve some bigger purpose? I'm not sure I currently see a reason to go to all these lengths. Sure, you can re-assign $this and make things weird. But I don't see why it's important to prevent it. It seems to add a lot of code, including checks in various places that would slow down things (and since these checks need to be done in each and every place we deal with local variables, it is also a very brittle design - each time we change or add anything there we'd need to remember forever to include special case for "this"). Also notes: 1. How static __call is a thing? That looks like something that makes no sense at all. 2. Why get_defined_vars() shouldn't show $this? -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com