Richard Quadling <rquadling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Both
>
> <?php
> class Oddity{
> public $var = 'a' . 'b';
> }
> ?>
>
>From http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.properties.php:
"This declaration may include an initialization, but this initialization
must be a constant value--that is, it must be able to be evaluated at
compile time and must not depend on run-time information in order to be
evaluated."
> and
>
> <?php
> class Oddity{
> const A_VAR = 'a' . 'b';
> }
> ?>
>
> produce ...
>
> PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '.', expecting ',' or ';' in -
> on line 3
>From http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.constants.php:
"The value must be a constant expression, not (for example) a variable,
a property, a result of a mathematical operation, or a function call."
>
> For properties, has this always been the case?
>
> Admittedly, this is the first time I've ever written code to assign a
> concatenated string to a static property ...
>
> static protected $s_NormaliserScript = __DIR__ . '/normalizedError.php';
>
> And I was just surprised.
>
> That's all.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard.
>
> P.S. Happy Friday!
>
>
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