On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalys...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > >> I'm thinking primarily of the benefit to base or abstract classes. For > > Both can have constructors. > >> base classes which expect certain properties be set, they are exposed to >> the danger of remaining unset if the derived class overrides the >> constructor without calling the parent. > > You should always call the parent ctor. There's pretty much no reason to > ever not to call parent ctor. > > -- > Stas Malyshev > smalys...@gmail.com >
Since there is no reason not to call parent ctor, maybe PHP should somehow make every class have default empty ctor, if it doesn't have one defined already - so you can write automatically parent::__construct() everywhere? Regards Pavel Kouřil -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
