Wez Furlong wrote:
It is *not* ok to have a static method try and work like a non static method.
In PHP 5, declaring a static method will prevent $this from being initialized.
static means static. Take this as a hint that what you're trying to
do it wrong :-)
As others have mentioned on the list (
Marcus Bointon wrote:
on 4/10/04 13:34, Christian Schneider at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I dare to disagree. For tool functions it often makes sense to make them
statically callable while you still might want to use them in an object
instance context respecting the instance's state. It may seem a b
Marcus Bointon wrote:
To summarise, you can't tell, and you shouldn't be trying to anyway.
That seems to be the consensus. I find it a pity as I like PHP for
giving programmers freedom instead of telling them how to do things but
oh well... :-)
Over and out,
- Chris
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on 4/10/04 13:34, Christian Schneider at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I dare to disagree. For tool functions it often makes sense to make them
> statically callable while you still might want to use them in an object
> instance context respecting the instance's state. It may seem a bit
> hacky but I
I was asked off-list by someone else why I thought it was wrong, it
turns out that I wasn't as clear as I could have been, so I'm going to
follow up here and then withdraw (because I don't consider it an
internals matter).
It *is* ok to have a static method and call it either statically or
not, pr
Wez Furlong wrote:
If a method is static, you should only ever call it statically.
Doing any other tricks is just plain wrong.
I dare to disagree. For tool functions it often makes sense to make them
statically callable while you still might want to use them in an object
instance context respecti
If a method is static, you should only ever call it statically.
Doing any other tricks is just plain wrong.
If you still want to know the answer, ask the question on the correct
list; what you've asked has nothing to do with hacking on the
internals of PHP in C.
--Wez.
On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 13:01:5
