Bug #18530 Updated: Request for Delphi style "inherited" call

ID: 18530 Updated by: alan@akbkhome.com Reported By: woprog@hotmail.com Status: Won't fix Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: Any PHP Version: 4.1.2 New Comment: http://www.php.net/manual/en/keyword.parent.php Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-07-24 04:35:21] derick@php.net You can have a class named parent, but you can not access it as a static class: Derick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-07-24 04:27:55] woprog@hotmail.com Hmm is that anywhere in the documentation? That also means that classes with the name "parent" are not possible right? Thanks a lot!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-07-24 04:22:10] alan_k@php.net you can already do parent::foo(); the inherited; is really against the grain of the language as it is a little too obfusicated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-07-24 04:11:44] woprog@hotmail.com This is a feature request, not a bug. ===================================== Check the following code: class A { function foo() { echo "A bar"; } } class B extends A { function foo() { echo "B bar"; } } When I want to call the parent version of the function foo() in B, I have to enter: A::foo(); thus including the actual classname of its parent... for me this is really annoying (I work a lot with classes in PHP)... could it be possible that the Delphi style of calling some classes parent version of some function is included in PHP? In Delphi this would look like this: type A = class function foo(); end; B = class(A) function foo(); end; function A.foo() begin // do something end; function B.foo() inherited; // would call A.foo // do something else end; As you can see in the Delphi code, there's no need to include the actual class name in the call. This is possible since Delphi doesn't support multiple inheritance. And as far as I know, PHP doesn't as well, so it should be possible, right? Would be really great to get feedback on this... Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=18530&edit=1