I had a real use case, where from an instance method a class method was called and that class method used $this as argument in a subsequent call. In the very first call the content of $this was the class name (as documented) but in subsequent calls it contained the OREF and that caused a <CLASS DOES NOT EXIST> error. A WRC ticket is already open.

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Thank you, the WRC case is open.