Posted by Marcus Bointon on 10/21/65 11:22

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but it seems you can't
use class constants to set default values for class properties. You
can, however, use them for default values for method params, e.g.:

class foo {}
const BAR = 100;
private $thing = self::BAR;
function wibble($a = self::BAR) {
echo $a;
}
}

In this case $this->thing will be undefined, but wibble() will get
the correct default value for $a.

Comments?

Marcus
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