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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Bug Wrong resolution of "Late Static Binding" after
 self::method()
From: marc@mabe.berlin (Marc)

Thank you all for explaining.

This helps a lot!

Marc


On 09.03.20 10:27, Rowan Tommins wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 05:38, Marc <marc@mabe.berlin> wrote:
>
>> Does it make sense? -> I have read "self::" all time as a shortcut for
>> "MyClass::" until I noticed this is not the case and I expect most PHP
>> devs would explain it this way.
>>
>> Is there a reason why self:: doesn't reset the internal "static" reference?
>>
>
>
> A reasonably intuitive parallel that occurred to me is that $this is also
> maintained through self:: calls (as long as they're not to a method
> declared static).
>
> So if you replace the static:: call in my previous example with a $this->
> call, you get the same result:
>
>
> # https://3v4l.org/deRcD
> class A {
>      function call() {
>          self::method1();
>      }
>      function method1() {
>          $this->method2();
>      }
>      function method2() {
>          echo 'Base definition';
>      }
> }
> class B extends A {
>      function method2() {
>          echo 'Override';
>      }
> }
> (new B)->call(); # echoes 'Override'
>
>
> Regards,