On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 03:44:33PM -0800, Mike Naberezny wrote: > I see your point with detection by something like __is_callable(), although > I can't personally think of a place where I'd use it.
Consider a situation where a proxy/mediator/broker class implementing __call proxyies method calls to other classes (possibly of 3rd party origins), which themselves may or may not implement __call. You'd like the broker itself to have a consistent behavior for the sake of its users and good clean code. That's very difficult if the classes it's proxying for can't agree on a consistent behavior. The result might be lots of special cases in various levels of code, not to mention the possibility of a fatal error if any of the __call implementations try to behave like the language does. A change in the language could eliminate the ambiguity. Regards, Andrew -- Andrew Yochum Plexpod [EMAIL PROTECTED] 718-360-0879 -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
