Re: [PHP] Question on PHP 6 and static calls to instance methods.

You would have better luck posing this question to the internals list:

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Cheers,
Rob.


On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 17:32 -0400, Adam Richardson wrote:
> I've incorporated use of the ability to call instance methods through  
> static calls, allowing for me to mimic multiple inheritance without  
> having to make edits to classes that are already working because of  
> the behavior of '$this' when instance methods are called statically.
> 
> As stated on in the basics section on classes and objects:
> 
> "$this is a reference to the calling object (usually the object to  
> which the method belongs, but can be another object, if the method is  
> called statically from the context of a secondary object)."
> 
> I've made great use of that functionality in my framework.  However,  
> It sounds like this is going to cause a fatal error in PHP6.  Is this  
> in fact true?  And, if the behavior is going to change, can somebody  
> explain what the impetus for this change was?
> 
> Thank you very much for your time,
> 
> Adam
> 
> Adam Richardson
> Envision Internet Consulting, LLC
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