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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Static method call syntax on objects
From: smalyshev@sugarcrm.com (Stas Malyshev)

Hi!

On 8/10/11 1:12 PM, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
>    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).
>

This is how FETCH_CLASS works now - when it has an object in where it 
expects class name, it uses object's class. We could call toString() 
instead but that might be even more surprising.
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