note 77112 added to language.oop5

I've run into a bit of a problem I'm hoping someone can help me with. I'm trying to create an array as a member of an object, containing another member of that object. I'm trying something like: <? class A { public $a = "foo"; public $b = array($this->a); } ?> which gives me: PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting ')' in foo.php on line 4 However, the following works perfectly fine: <? $a = "foo"; $b = array($a); ?> Now, it seems that if I initialize $b in the constructor, all's fine, such as: <? class A { public $a = "foo"; public $b; function __construct() { $this->b = array($this->a); } } ?> Is there a way to pull off what I'm trying to do (apart from using the constructor), or is this simply a limitation of the parser I've gotta live with? ---- Server IP: 66.207.199.35 Probable Submitter: 70.65.24.9 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/77112 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77112/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77112/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77112/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77112/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77112/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77112/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77112 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/77112 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php