> On 19 Jan 2015, at 10:05, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > "Marcio Almada" wrote in message > news:caoshv+uho3ovs-beqmdjomz4sdwoyjn7znmcqmt8byynugq...@mail.gmail.com... >> >>> Perhaps there should be a new rule which says that invoking a constructor >>> with anything other than "new" or "parent::__contruct()" >>> should be illegal, in which case this situation would generate an error. >> >> Now this would break a lot of code that $obj->__construct(); or >> $this->__construct(); And I've seen a lot of it. > > Surely, according to the principles of OO, a class constructor should ONLY be > called when the class is constructed/instantiated into an object via the > "new" verb? Google for "class constructor" and you will see all those links > which say the same thing.
Inheritance is also an OO principle, and typically a derived class’s constructor will call the parent’s. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
