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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List
From: steph@zend.com ("Steph Fox")

Heya Mike,

>> -1, this whole idea just sounds so weird for PHP.
>
> Sure, but how PHPish is this fatal error?
>
> mike@honeybadger:~/build/php-5.2-debug$ cli -r 'class c{} c::$x=1;'
>
> Fatal error: Access to undeclared static property:  c::$x in Command
> line code on line 1
>
> The idea, as far as I understood, was to allow this things with
> non-strict classes once we have strict classes.

Nothing like telling it backwards, mm?

OK, for some reason I was under the impression that that behaviour had been
reverted and this was an attempt to put it back in <sigh />

Make that a +1 for exactly the same reason it was a -1 before. If it counts,
which it probably doesn't.

- Steph