vendor/phpdocumentor/type-resolver/src/Types/Static_.php


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<?php
/**
 * This file is part of phpDocumentor.
 *
 * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 * file that was distributed with this source code.
 *
 * @copyright 2010-2015 Mike van Riel<mike@phpdoc.org>
 * @license   http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php MIT
 * @link      http://phpdoc.org
 */

namespace phpDocumentor\Reflection\Types;

use phpDocumentor\Reflection\Type;

/**
 * Value Object representing the 'static' type.
 *
 * Self, as a Type, represents the class in which the associated element was called. This differs from self as self does
 * not take inheritance into account but static means that the return type is always that of the class of the called
 * element.
 *
 * See the documentation on late static binding in the PHP Documentation for more information on the difference between
 * static and self.
 */
final class Static_ implements Type
{
    /**
     * Returns a rendered output of the Type as it would be used in a DocBlock.
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function __toString()
    {
        return 'static';
    }
}