Hi Richard! Which change are you talking about? I just tried doing: <?php class A { public function __construct($a) { } } class B extends A { public function __construct($a, $b) { } } And it worked on 5.4 Beta 1 without errors.
Nikita On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Richard Quadling <rquadl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > With the recent BC with regard the locking of the constructor's > signature for subclasses, what is the expected mechanism for allowing > a subclass to have additional parameters? > > You can always supply them and use func_get_args() / func_num_args() / > etc. to read them. > > It would seem that the limitation restricts the capabilities. I'm not > a purist. Software development is a compromise between purity and > getting the job done in an efficient and understandable manner. > > By allowing undocumented parameters to the constructor (due to the > enforced signature), this would seem to break things on a different > front (I can't docblock non defined parameters for examples). -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php