1<?php 2/** 3 * This file is part of phpDocumentor. 4 * 5 * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE 6 * file that was distributed with this source code. 7 * 8 * @copyright 2010-2015 Mike van Riel<mike@phpdoc.org> 9 * @license http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php MIT 10 * @link http://phpdoc.org 11 */ 12 13namespace phpDocumentor\Reflection\Types; 14 15use phpDocumentor\Reflection\Type; 16 17/** 18 * Value Object representing the 'static' type. 19 * 20 * Self, as a Type, represents the class in which the associated element was called. This differs from self as self does 21 * not take inheritance into account but static means that the return type is always that of the class of the called 22 * element. 23 * 24 * See the documentation on late static binding in the PHP Documentation for more information on the difference between 25 * static and self. 26 */ 27final class Static_ implements Type 28{ 29 /** 30 * Returns a rendered output of the Type as it would be used in a DocBlock. 31 * 32 * @return string 33 */ 34 public function __toString() 35 { 36 return 'static'; 37 } 38} 39