Oh, yes and special methods that you mentioned would come in handy too
but from a object perspective. Maybe explicitly calling some sort finalize()
method to clean un-referenced objects would also be handy.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jakes Potgieter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: php.internals
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Stephan Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] stdClass
> When Im talking about something like this would come in handy
> obviously doesnt work! The paramter null could be added, to get
> desired result but to be programmatically correct:
>
> class MyOverload{
> function __construct($Foo) {
> $this->Foo = $Foo;
> }
> // overload the constructor
> function __construct(String $Foo, String $Bar){
> $this->Foo = $Foo;
> $this->Bar = $Bar;
> }
> public function doSomething(){
> if($this->Foo != null && $this->Bar == null){
> return $this->Foo . " needs a partner";
> // do something with Foo
> }elseif($this->Foo != null && $this->Bar != null){
> return $this->Foo . " and " . $this->Bar . " are partners";
//do
> something with Foo and Bar
> }
> }
> private $Foo;
> private $Bar;
> }
>
> $obj = new MyOverload("Mary");
> print $obj->doSomething();
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hartmut Holzgraefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Jakes Potgieter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Stephan Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 4:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] stdClass
>
>
> > Jakes Potgieter wrote:
> > > It would be nice to have a base class to inherit some special
> > > methods as we do in Java.
> >
> > could you name which ones you think of?
> >
> > being out of the JAVA camp for several years know i no longer
> > know all java.object methods and properties by heart, but
> > PHP mechanisms like __sleep()/__wakeup(), __toString() and
> > the introspection related functions like get_class() and
> > friends should provide comparable behaviour ...
> >
> > (IMHO the fact that any object in JAVA can be casted down
> > to java.object is not that clever after all, and part of it
> > is only due to the fact that there is no other way to have
> > portable container classes, which is now finally solved
> > with generics)
> >
> > > The same as method overloading,
> > > one of the most important aspects missing in PHP5 and the
> > > new object model.
> >
> > due to the feature of optional parameters you may end up with
> > more than one overloaded function matching a call signature,
> > due to the fact that argument types in a function call
> > are not known at compile time signature matching would have
> > to happen at runtime,
> > and the language syntax would need to be extended to add
> > parameter type specifiers to function parameter declarations
> > (ok, we already have this one for interfaces ...)
> >
> > --
> > Hartmut Holzgraefe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
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