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Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 21:49:27 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Static method call with single colon results in fatal
 error, not a parse error?
From: ua.san.alex@gmail.com ("S.A.N")

Foo::bar();

Output for 5.0.0 - 5.6.8, php7@20140507 - 20150501, hhvm-3.6.0 - 3.7.0bar
http://3v4l.org/F6tXZ

2015-05-12 21:44 GMT+03:00 Bishop Bettini <bishop@php.net>:
> class Foo {
>     public static function bar() { echo 'bar'; }
> }
> Foo:bar();
>
>
> Note the single colon.  According to 3v4l <http://3v4l.org/Ot3Fk>...
>
> 5.2.17 and earlier:
> Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':'
>
> 5.3 and later, including 7 and HHVM:
> Fatal error: Call to undefined function bar()
>
>
> Is this really a run-time fatal error?  Unless I missed a memo, surely this
> should be a compile time error.