Bishop Bettini wrote:
> class Foo {
> public static function bar() { echo 'bar'; }
> }
> Foo:bar();
>
>
> Note the single colon. According to 3v4l <http://3v4l.org/Ot3Fk>...
>
> 5.2.17 and earlier:
> Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':'
>
> 5.3 and later, including 7 and HHVM:
> Fatal error: Call to undefined function bar()
>
>
> Is this really a run-time fatal error? Unless I missed a memo, surely this
> should be a compile time error.
Foo:bar();
is the same as
Foo:
bar();
so it is parsed as labelled statement, and as such is syntactically
valid since PHP 5.3.
--
Christoph M. Becker
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