Re: Casting from parent class to child
| From: | Andrew Ballard | Date: | Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:42:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Casting from parent class to child | ||
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On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Nathan Rixham <nrixham@gmail.com> wrote:
> David Harkness wrote:
>>
>> Casting does not change an object. You must copy the relevant value(s)
>> from
>> the object returned into a new DateTimePlus. Since DateTime's constructor
>> takes only a string, and I assume it won't accept your format directly,
>
> unless you implement __toString I believe (not tested)
>
IMO, that would be a truly useful feature to add if you were extending
DateTime anyway.
Andrew