Bug #61244 [Opn->Wfx]: Translitrator __construct should be like create

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61244&edit=1 ID: 61244 Updated by: cataphract@php.net Reported by: jinmoku at hotmail dot com Summary: Translitrator __construct should be like create -Status: Open +Status: Wont fix Type: Bug Package: I18N and L10N related Operating System: Windows 7 PHP Version: 5.4.0 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: The reason for not exposing a public constructor is that this gives a little more latitude for building, in the future, a proper inheritance interface. Factory methods are more versatile than constructors because they can return different class types. In the future, we may want to expose subclasses of Transliterator. Let's say that the transliterator 'NFD' has, in ICU, a specific C++ type (class) with more methods. With a factory method we can return a PHP class that exposes these additional C++ methods, while with a constructor we couldn't. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-03-02 14:02:36] jinmoku at hotmail dot com Description: ------------ Translitrator __construct should be like create Test script: --------------- $trans = new Transliterator('NFD; [:Nonspacing Mark:] Remove; NFC'); echo $trans->transliterate('hé'); Expected result: ---------------- he Actual result: -------------- Fatal error: Call to private Transliterator::__construct() from invalid context in D:\www\test\index.php on line 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61244&edit=1