You are trying to do function array dereferencing which is the latest feature(s) of PHP 5.4 and not available on PHP 5.3.
You need to rewrite like this for that to work..
<?php
if($this->debug) {
$backtrace = debug_backtrace();
var_dump($this->_handle->error . " L" . $backtrace[0]["line"]);
}
?>