Has this always been the case?

Hi.

Both

<?php
class Oddity{
  public $var = 'a' . 'b';
}
?>

and

<?php
class Oddity{
const A_VAR = 'a' . 'b';
}
?>

produce ...

PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected '.', expecting ',' or ';' in -
on line 3

For properties, has this always been the case?

Admittedly, this is the first time I've ever written code to assign a
concatenated string to a static property ...

    static protected $s_NormaliserScript = __DIR__ . '/normalizedError.php';

And I was just surprised.

That's all.

Regards,

Richard.

P.S. Happy Friday!


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