Newsgroups: php.internals
Path: news.php.net
Xref: news.php.net php.internals:23652
Return-Path: <cschneid@cschneid.com>
Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm
Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net
Received: (qmail 42454 invoked by uid 1010); 25 May 2006 13:42:39 -0000
Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net
Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net
Received: (qmail 42439 invoked from network); 25 May 2006 13:42:39 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1)
  by localhost with SMTP; 25 May 2006 13:42:39 -0000
X-Host-Fingerprint: 217.162.171.242 217-162-171-242.dclient.hispeed.ch  
Received: from ([217.162.171.242:20921] helo=localhost.localdomain)
	by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP
	id 5D/DE-17316-F44B5744 for <jasper@album.co.nz>; Thu, 25 May 2006 09:42:39 -0400
To: internals@lists.php.net,Jasper Bryant-Greene <jasper@album.co.nz>
Message-ID: <4475B44B.6030002@cschneid.com>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 15:42:35 +0200
User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Macintosh/20060308)
MIME-Version: 1.0
References: <138663365.20060514205903@marcus-boerger.de> <038d01c676f8$ab9b3380$6602a8c0@foxbox> <44685D24.2000801@php.net> <1147708994.14148.23.camel@notebook.local> <16710545416.20060515202714@marcus-boerger.de> <1147721541.14148.47.camel@notebook.local> <4468DB43.1020005@emini.dk> <7.0.1.0.2.20060515194051.02b32ef8@zend.com> <1148496966.19173.79.camel@notebook.local> <454303585.20060524213714@marcus-boerger.de> <B9.57.17316.F4995744@pb1.pair.com> <44759A3A.9050106@album.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <44759A3A.9050106@album.co.nz>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Posted-By: 217.162.171.242
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] fatal static call in php 6.0?
From: cschneid@cschneid.com (Christian Schneider)

Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:
> Christian Schneider wrote:
>> PS: There are no plans to make non-static calls to static methods
>> illegal, right?
> 
> What is the point in that? What advantage do you get using
> $this->someMethodName() [non-static call] over self::someMethodName()
> [static call]?

self:: does not exist in PHP 4. So $this is probably used by some people 
to avoid <classname>:: which is ugly. While this might not be the best 
reason to do it it is still a real world fact.

- Chris