From:             
Operating system: Win7
PHP version:      5.3.6
Package:          Class/Object related
Bug Type:         Bug
Bug description:inconsistent error-handling for $this

Description:
------------
$this is not generally allowed outside an object context, but sometimes it
is.



I discovered this while trying to write a cheeky little base-class that
would 

allow you to decorate objects with new methods, at run-time.



I would have gotten away with it, too - and I still could of course, only I
would 

have to break from the convention of $this, and naming the context-object 

something else, which kind of sucks.



Test script:
---------------
<?php



$foo = function($this)

{

  var_dump($this); // this will work!

};



$foo('bar');



// now an object:



class Test

{

  public $foo = 'bar';

}



$test = new Test;



// and another closure:



$ouch = function($this)

{

  var_dump($this->bar); // this will blow up

};



$ouch($test);



Expected result:
----------------
The two examples should either fail consistently, or succeed consistently.



>From my point of view, why should I not be allowed to have a local variable
named 

$this if I wanted to? There's nothing special or magical about this
variable, 

besides the fact that it gets automatically assigned on call.



Actual result:
--------------
The second example fails.



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