Re: Re: new overloading feature?

From: Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 20:36:33 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: new overloading feature?
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George Schlossnagle wrote:
I'm not an OO expert, but doesn't this break a fundamental semantic of OOP -- namely that new() returns a new object of the specified class. Isn't this the whole reason that the Singleton pattern exists?
yeah I would agree that we should always try to find a non magic solution and in this case a singleton seems to be the obvious choice. however currently its kinda hard to write a singleton that will work even if you inherit from the base class that implements the singleton due to: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=30235 regards, Lukas

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