Hello Derick, Sunday, February 22, 2004, 6:03:28 PM, you wrote:
> 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). As i said several times, getMessage() is only a "final read only" access method to the private message property. Overload __toString() if you feel to. marcus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
