On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Erik Franzén wrote: > With this behavior you force the developer to use the exception class. > You cannot use your own class because PHP will trigger an error if you do. > > However, you can of course extend the exception class with your own > class, but you cannot replace the default methods (getMessage etc) since > they are final. > > I don't like this, since you are forced to use the built in exception > class which also has final methods. Where has the feeling of freedom gone?
Freedom goes with functionality ;-) but I think it's indeed not wise to have getMessage defined as final. (I don't think it makes sense for the other methods to be overridden though). Derick -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
