>> Backslash? Seriously? I'm hurt that my suggestion of "¬" (ASCII170 ?) >> wasn't used. :-( > Backslash doesn't sound like it will look very pretty Windows and DOS have been getting away with it for the last 25+ years so why can't PHP get in on that action? :P Though I have read the explanation (many, many times) and I still don't understand why '::' wasn't used. MyClass::MyStaticMethod is utilizing namespacing. Why it was felt that '::' as the official namespace operator would mess that up is beyond my ken. :( thnx, Christoph -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php