Posted by Jasper Bryant-Greene on 10/20/07 11:30

On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 01:02 +0200, Dragan Stanojevic - Nevidljivi wrote:
[snip]
> and it works fine, I cannot define a constant by expression, like:
>
> class Foo {
> const AAA = 1 << 0;
> const BBB = 1 << 1;
> const CCC = 1 << 2;
> const DDD =1 << 3;
> }
>
> Well now, is this a bug, and I should file it, or is it, and why, normal?

Not a bug. Read manual.

>From http://php.net/oop5.constants comes the following:

"The value must be a constant expression, not (for example) a variable,
a class member, result of a mathematical operation or a function call."

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