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From: weedpacket@varteg.nz (Morgan)

On 2025-12-12 11:21, Rowan Tommins [IMSoP] wrote:
> function foo() {
>      static $a = 1; // OK
>      static $b = $a; // Fatal error: Constant expression contains 
> invalid operations
> }

Though this example is legal since 8.3.