Hello Jason,
to be honest i don't really care. Since i am a C++ guy who loves types
i'd appreciate automatic calling of inherited constructors/destructors.
But php does not have types and so the non implicit calling version
gives us a little bit more flexibility. Since we also don't have
polymorphism the current solution seems to fit best. I hope this is a
better answer. A thing which could be changed though (if we haven't
fixed down everything in that area) is to change to automatically call
inherited destructors.
regards
marcus
Monday, June 28, 2004, 12:12:32 AM, you wrote:
> Quite possible you had something else in mind, im just interested in
> knowing why its done this way, is it for performance sake, is it
> becuase you beleive php is more flexable this way, is it becuase it
> just happened to be as such...
> Im not being critical, Im being curious...
> Jason
> Marcus Boerger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Jason,
>>
>> maybe this time we neither had c++ nor java in mind, this time it was
>> delphi.
>>
>> regards
>> marcus
>>
>>
>> Sunday, June 27, 2004, 8:44:45 AM, you wrote:
>>
>> > which languages is this normal too..
>> > if you refer to java, that uses the 'super' function, you need only
>> > explicitly call super if your constructor has arguments, otherwise an
>> > implicit call is made to the parents defualt constructor ( one with
>> > arguments).
>> > c++ also will call the parent defualt constructor automatically as well
>> > i beleive.
>> > that aside, i do release my mistake in the workaround, ive noted the
>> > use of parent::__construct().
>> > im not really concerned with coding, i was more simply interested in why
>> > it was done this way, in such a way, that a child class can be
>> > inherited with parent class construction.
>>
>> > Jason
>>
>> > Stefan Walk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 08:03:12PM -0700, Jason Davidson wrote:
>> >> > Hi, is there a reason that when a child class is instantiated the parent
>> >> > class constructor does not get called?
>> >> > The obvious workaournd for this is to simply call
>> >> > $this->parentConstructor(); in the child class constructor, however,
>> >> > this seems strange..
>> >>
>> >> parent::__construct(), to be exact :)
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > Am i way off base here...?
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks
>> >> > Jason
>> >>
>> >> Most languages i know do that ("forcing" you to call super or alike).
>> >> The only small "annoyance" i see is that parent::__construct() doesn't
>> >> automatically use the parameters that were passed to the constructor,
>> >> but i think one can live with that.
>> >>
>> >> Stefan
>> >>
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>>
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