# chris.boget@xxxxxxxx / 2007-04-18 04:59:48 -0400:
> >So only one of these is "kosher"
> >static:
> >return Services_JSON::decode($data);
> >
> >class:
> >$json = new Services_JSON;
> >return $json->decode($data);
> >but not both.
>
> I'm not trying to start (or further add fuel to) any kind of war but
> instead an earnest question: why not both?
If you don't declare the method static, you might be using $this inside,
possibly indirectly.
class c
{
function f()
{
if (its_second_friday_this_year()) {
return get_class($this);
}
return 'mostly harmless';
}
function g()
{
return self::f();
}
}
c::g();
That's an incident waiting to happen, and forbidding static calls of
instance methods is an (intended) anti-footshooting measure.
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