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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Remove $this from incompatible context
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> And yes, I'm pretty sure there is intent to remove this completely in the
> future - this is just another leftover from PHP 4. The approach outlined
> here only avoids dropping support in PHP 7 already (which the original
> patch did for all practical purposes).

Why btw remove it? OK, somebody did not mark the function as "static",
but if it doesn't use $this, what's the difference? It certainly won't
produce any undesirable behavior, so why not just let it work as if it
was declared "static"? Is there any practical reason not to?

-- 
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@gmail.com