note 68948 added to language.oop5.visibility

There is such nonstricted "feature" with self:: on dinamic & static calling of methods not declared as static: <? class foo { static $counter; public function bar($i=0) { if ($i) self::$counter = $i; echo ' bar: $this var ', isset($this)?'exists':'missing', "\n"; self::mar(); if (--self::$counter) self::bar(); } public function mar() { echo ' mar: $this var ', isset($this)?'exists':'missing', "\n"; } } $foo = new foo(); echo "\nDINAMIC CALLING:\n"; $foo->bar(2); echo "\nSTATIC CALLING:\n"; foo::bar(2); # OUTPUT: # # DINAMIC CALLING: # bar: $this var exists # mar: $this var exists # bar: $this var exists # mar: $this var exists # # STATIC CALLING: # bar: $this var missing # mar: $this var missing # bar: $this var missing # mar: $this var missing # # # executed under PHP 5.1.1 (cli) (built: Nov 27 2005 21:39:02) ?> In other words, in dinamic called function the "self::" selector will be interpreted as "$this->". ---- Server IP: 66.163.161.117 Probable Submitter: 81.23.148.200 ---- X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.visibility.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/68948 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/68948/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/68948/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/68948/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/68948/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/68948/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/68948/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/68948 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/68948 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php