Calling parent's constructor
| From: | Andrei Zmievski | Date: | Wed, 13 Dec 2000 21:56:12 +0000 |
| Subject: | Calling parent's constructor | ||
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Just stumbled upon something while writing a script.
Is it possible to call parent's constructor without knowing parent
class's name? Example:
class Foo {
function Foo() {
print "foo";
}
}
class Bar extends Foo {
function Bar() {
parent::Foo();
print "bar";
}
}
Of course, some will say that since Bar is known to extend Foo, then
just use Foo::Foo(), but we've had this discussion before and that's why
"parent" construct was introduced. Maybe we could have
"parent::parent()"?
-Andrei
Hacker: Any person who derives joy from
discovering ways to circumvent limitations.