Re: Bug #2675: Misbehavior of object initializers

On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > $this->type was supposed to be $foo->type > > > > > > > > // This will not > > > $bar = new Bar(); > > > echo( 'I should be foo also : ' . $bar->type ); > > $this->type was supposed to be $bar->type > > Why do you say that $bar->type should be printing "foo"? I obviously > should print "bar", and it does so on my system. > This should be bar's initializer: Function Bar() { $this->type = 'bar'; return new Foo(); } Sorry, i mucked up the code even worse than i thought, i modified the bug report to reflect it. It Should of returned a object of $foo... right? or the object initalizer Bar cannot return nothing except Bar? It would be nice to polymorph based upon inputs to the function. Thanks, J