Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:8090 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 68183 invoked by uid 1010); 23 Feb 2004 18:17:42 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 68158 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2004 18:17:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO shiva.mind.de) (212.42.230.204) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 23 Feb 2004 18:17:41 -0000 Received: from [192.168.1.105] (p508EBD11.dip.t-dialin.net [80.142.189.17]) by shiva.mind.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EC1E97B66; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 19:17:35 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 19:16:00 +0100 Reply-To: Marcus Boerger X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <691103866843.20040223191600@marcus-boerger.de> To: Josh Fuhs Cc: Art Hundiak , PHP Development In-Reply-To: <1077427838.40383e7e58b76@webmail.purdue.edu> References: <1077090830.30573.1.camel@coogle.localdomain> <200402212010.53919.zhundiak@comcast.net> <1077427838.40383e7e58b76@webmail.purdue.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Static weirdness.. From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger) Hello Josh, Sunday, February 22, 2004, 6:30:38 AM, you wrote: > If I'm not mistaken, Java does not allow calls to static methods via object > instances. It simply doesn't make sense to couple the unecessary object instance > into a method call in which it has absolutely no bearing. > If the object has nothing to do with the operation, then there's no point for it > to be in the syntax. I am completely in favor of a In fact it may be related. As i said before it is one of the ways to get to a class. regards marcus