Hello,
I would like to start with an example:
<?php
class A {
public static function foo ( ) {
return 'foo';
}
}
class B {
protected $a = null;
public function __construct ( ) {
$this->a = new A();
}
public function a ( ) {
return $this->a;
}
public function f ( ) {
return $this->a::foo();
}
}
$b = new B();
var_dump($b->f());
This is not possible. We have a parse error in B::f because
$this->a::foo() is not a construction of the language. But we can write:
$a = $this->a; $a::foo();
In the same way, we can't write:
$this->a()::foo();
I would like to know why? Is it a compiler related issue or just an
omission? Would it be interesting to fix it?
Best regards.
--
Ivan Enderlin
Developer of Hoa
http://hoa.42/ or http://hoa-project.net/
PhD. student at DISC/Femto-ST (Vesontio) and INRIA (Cassis)
http://disc.univ-fcomte.fr/ and http://www.inria.fr/
Member of HTML and WebApps Working Group of W3C
http://w3.org/
