> Not that it would be an argument but just for understanding: Do you know > any scripting language which has this?
Dropping the "scripting" part... IIRC, C++ calls ctors without arguments automatically like in my 'sequentialBefore' napkin sketch. C# has language-level support for 'sequentialBefore' type logic in its initialization list as well (which helps to smooth away the anti-ness by keeping it out of the ctor code). Also, here's a fascinatingly stupid bug-as-feature in AS3 (which I don't remember anything about, having used it basically procedurally along time ago) http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2008/09/be_careful_how.html. (Call Super hoisting out of conditionals? How could that have seemed like a good idea?) So there is precedent for Contractual Call Super. I don't think the above implementations are ideal, though, so if someone did go down this path I think it should be (a) not automatic but dependent on keyword(s); (b) flexible as far as executing before/after; (c) deeply-thought-through as far as its impact on class hierarchies that expand and contract over time. -- S. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
