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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: having fun with $this
From: et@php.net (Stefan Walk)

On Thursday 06 March 2008 23:51:47 Edward Z. Yang wrote:
> These examples don't cause any problems because they're not in the
> object context, so $this is just another, ordinary variable. If you
> include'd the files inside something like:
>
> class Foo {
>   public function bar() {
>     include 'this-test.php';
>   }
> }
>
> there should be an error

php -r 'class A { function __construct() { $this+=41; var_dump($this); }} new 
A;'                                                   
int(42)

"should" is the right word here ;)

Regards,
Stefan