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[David Sklar]

csnyder wrote:
> What Adam makes a lot of sense, and it implies that self:: is poorly named. 
> 
> self:: doesn't mean "self", it means "a static instance of this very
> same class".
> 
> I think you mean for a Meal/Lunch instance to chew() its own food,
> which is whacky.

Here's another bug report about the same issue. Since "self" is bound at 
compile time, it can't know about subclasses:

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29647

David