Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61244&edit=1
ID: 61244
Updated by: cataphr...@php.net
Reported by: jinmoku at hotmail dot com
Summary: Translitrator __construct should be like create
-Status: Open
+Status: Wont fix
Type: Bug
Package: I18N and L10N related
Operating System: Windows 7
PHP Version: 5.4.0
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
The reason for not exposing a public constructor is that this gives a little
more latitude for building, in the future, a proper inheritance interface.
Factory methods are more versatile than constructors because they can return
different class types. In the future, we may want to expose subclasses of
Transliterator. Let's say that the transliterator 'NFD' has, in ICU, a specific
C++ type (class) with more methods. With a factory method we can return a PHP
class that exposes these additional C++ methods, while with a constructor we
couldn't.
Previous Comments:
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[2012-03-02 14:02:36] jinmoku at hotmail dot com
Description:
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Translitrator __construct should be like create
Test script:
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$trans = new Transliterator('NFD; [:Nonspacing Mark:] Remove; NFC');
echo $trans->transliterate('hé');
Expected result:
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he
Actual result:
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Fatal error: Call to private Transliterator::__construct() from invalid context
in D:\www\test\index.php on line 4
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