Re: On abstract methods defined on traits

On 03.08.2018 at 19:08, Pedro Magalhães wrote: > On the documentation about traits there is a mention to: "Traits support > the use of abstract methods in order to impose requirements upon the > exhibiting class." in > > https://secure.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.traits.php#language.oop5.traits.abstract > > However, this is not true, and it has never been since traits were > introduced (https://3v4l.org/tYAmu). > > There is a related bug report in > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=75449 > > What currently happens is that (like with normal methods), the method on > the receiving class is used and the method from the trait is simply ignored. Yes. However, if the class using the trait would not implement the method, a compile time error would be thrown. > Although this can be fixed, I wanted your opinion on it as this would be > the only thing from traits that would impose anything on the receiving > class and conflicts with the normal precedence rules. Frankly, I don't understand what this bug report is about, <https://3v4l.org/38lmA> looks pretty much expected (note that the error message is totally different from what has been reported; there is no class D in the reproduce script). -- Christoph M. Becker