note 91910 rejected from language.oop5.paamayim-nekudotayim by danbrown

Note Submitter: RocketInABog at techno-monks dot net ---- It seems some people were as confused as myself with a certain use of the Scope Resolution Operator (::) in php. Here is what I wish the documentation said explicitly. The signature for calling a static/class method and the signature for calling an instance method look identical in php, yet operate differently. The instance method handles "$this" as expected, and the static/class method (naturally) does not. In other words; working from Example #3, above (condensed below): <php? class OtherClass extends MyClass{ public function myFunc() { parent::myFunc(); } } ?> When calling "parent::myFunc();" .. although "$this" is not (visually) used in the method call, the parent instance method is successfully called with the proper instance ('OtherClass') of "$this" . So far, I haven't encountered any language that does this, other than php. That aside, PHP is still my friend.