Sure:

as I said earlier, it was proposed to be included already in 5.2.4, but some
people
objected as it represented "too much of a language change" which should not
happen
in minor release. So even though the patch impact was minimal, it was
postponed and
thus only committed in the 5_3 branch.

Regards

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Nathan Nobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Etienne Kneuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Are you using a custom and outdated build of 5.2.4 ?
> >
> > $classname::$member was introduced in php5.2.4 but removed
> > before the actual release, and is now only present as of PHP5.3.
> >
>
> thanks for your reply.
> apparently i am; looking in my portage directory i can see:
>
> php-5.2.4.ebuild                     php-5.2.4_pre200708051230-r2.ebuild
> and the build i have installed is the latter.
> do you know why this was removed prior to 5.3; just curious..
>
> -nathan
>



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