Marcus, The idea behind this kind of request is to speed up development time. And the way a language and its base classes are implemented could really help to reach this goal.
When you write "a change is a change", you're right. But the way you have written your code could really reduce the risk of bugs. And systematically calling parent::... is one of it. I also understand when you consider as a non sense calling an empty method which slows down execution for nothing. Except that personally I really favour develop time rather than execution speed. Upgrading a computer is less expensive than spending hours to fix bugs. Implementing a common base class with empty methods (or Chris' proposal, just do not report error) does not impact performance (just don't call them), but allows people having a different view on programming to do it. Finally my request to implement it within PHP would limit the number of class trees, all world wide classes would have the same base class. Nice OOP vision, isn't it ;-) Regards, Stephane -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
