On 03/11/2013 08:19 AM, Ángel González wrote:
> On 11/03/13 12:19, Eric James Michael Ritz wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> This is what I want to know: Is there any valid situation in PHP where
>> the ‘parent’ keyword is not followed by the scope-resolution operator?
>> I am asking to help me decide on the best way to fix a bug for
>> php-mode[1] for GNU Emacs. Consider these three lines:
>>
>> echo $parent;
>> echo parent::$foo;
>> echo $this->parent;
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> My idea to fix this problem is to only treat ‘parent’ as a keyword if
>> the scope-resolution operator immediately follows it. But before
>> doing that I want to know whether or not that is true. So is there
>> are valid situation where the keyword ‘parent’ does not have ‘::’
>> after it?
>
> Hello Eric
>
> Wouldn't it be simpler to check that parent if preceded by
> whitespace/brackets? Checking if it's followed by the paamayim
> nekudotayim, seems also ok.
Thanks for the idea. Checking for brackets would work but not
whitespace since PHP allows programmers to write code such as
echo $this-> parent; // Same as $this->parent
So perhaps checking for paamayim nekudotayim would be best.
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ejmr
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