The typical way to access a variable or instance from inside a function/method is to either declare it a global variable or pass it as a argument. Is there any reason why someone shouldn't use static class variables to do this? Ex:

<?php
class Foo {
        public static $bar_instance;
}

class Bar {
        public function do_something() {}
}

Foo::$bar_instance = new Bar;

function foo_bar() {
        Foo::$bar_instance->do_something();
}

foo_bar();
?>

Crude example but imagine this on a larger scale. I'm thinking there may be some kind of php optimization that this would hamper or something to that effect.

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