Why can't bee() call bar() unless I prepend self::?

Static functions do not have access to the $this pointer, but what you have written there is actually trying to call the global function bar(). A regular call to a method on $x would be something like.

You are insight of a static method. Inside of a static method you are not in the object context so you cannot call the method with $this, ...

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