Re: Inconsistencies in callable, call_user_func and direct variable calls

From: Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:24:56 +0000
Subject: Re: Inconsistencies in callable, call_user_func and direct variable calls
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On 24 January 2015 00:15:01 GMT, Stanislav Malyshev <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>> Foo::bar(); // OK
>> ['Foo', 'bar'](); // OK
>> 'Foo::bar'(); // FATAL ERROR
>
>I'm not sure why one would ever need/want the latter. IMO, it just
>looks
>weird.

Well, they both look weird as literals like that, but the array looks the wierder of the two to me.
Representing a static call in some external configuration is an example where a single string in
normal PHP syntax would make more sense than needing to create a 2-element array.

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