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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Fix inconsistent behavior of $this variable
From: dmitry@zend.com (Dmitry Stogov)

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On 05/24/2016 08:45 AM, Jesse Schalken wrote:
> I'm curious, what is it about $this that makes it special in the first 
> place? Can't it be a normal local variable that happens to already be 
> assigned at the start of a method?

In fact $this is not a regular local variable and it must not be 
re-assigned.

Thank. Dmitry.

>
> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 6:24 AM, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com 
> <mailto:dmitry@zend.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi internals,
>
>
>     Please review the RFC.
>
>     It proposes to fix all known inconsistencies related to handling
>     of special $this variable.
>
>
>     https://wiki.php.net/rfc/this_var
>
>
>     Thanks. Dmitry.
>
>


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