Paul Bissex wrote:
> FWIW Python also requires child classes to call parent constructors
> manually. Not sure what the justification is for this design decision
> is, though, in either language. Anybody?
Flexibility, I would guess. With PHP's current behavior one can:
(1) Call the parent constr
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:51:58 -0700, Jason Davidson
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>
> If you instantiate a child class, the parent class constructor is not
> called, is there a reason for this? anyone know of plans to change
> this at all,
> the obvious workaround is to call the parents construc
As far as I know, this is fairly common in most programming languages
(but I just woke up so don't take my word on it!). It allows you a
lot greater control over the construction of your class, since you can
force the child class to override what the parent class's default
member variable values a
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