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Subject: Static method call syntax on objects
From: sebastian@php.net (Sebastian Bergmann)

  Is this exepcted behaviour?

    ➜  ~  cat test.php
    <?php
    class Foo {
        public static function bar() {
            print __METHOD__ . "\n";
        }
    }

    $foo = new Foo;
    $foo::bar();


    ➜  ~  php test.php
    Foo::bar

  I, for one, was surprised that this does what it does with PHP 5.3 and
  PHP 5.4 (do not have older version of PHP hand).

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Sebastian Bergmann                    Co-Founder and Principal Consultant
http://sebastian-bergmann.de/                           http://thePHP.cc/