On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 13:15 -0400, Nathan Nobbe wrote:
> On 10/9/07, Robert Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Why would I use an interface? :)
> 
> 
> because inheritance is not always optimal.
> 
> What's the problem that's outlined? I'm too lazy to go and look :|
> 
> 
> /**
>  * CI_BASE - For PHP 4
>  *
>  * This file is used only when CodeIgniter is being run under PHP 4.
>  *
>  * In order to allow CI to work under PHP 4 we had to make the Loader class
>  * the parent of the Controller Base class.  It's the only way we can
>  * enable functions like $this->load->library('email') to instantiate
>  * classes that can then be used within controllers as $this->email->send()
>  *
>  * PHP 4 also has trouble referencing the CI super object within application
>  * constructors since objects do not exist until the class is fully
>  * instantiated.  Basically PHP 4 sucks...
>  *
>  * Since PHP 5 doesn't suffer from this problem so we load one of
>  * two files based on the version of PHP being run.
>  *
>  * @package        CodeIgniter
>  * @subpackage    codeigniter
>  * @category    front-controller
>  * @author        Rick Ellis
>  * @link        http://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/
>  */

Having read the comment it sounds like they have a solution in place.

Cheers,
Rob.
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