RE: [PHP-DEV] RfC: rethink OO inheritance strictness

Derick Rethans <mailto:derick@php.net> wrote on Friday, July 21, 2006 11:31 AM: > It's quite a different thing in C++ as there you have method > overloading which PHP doesn't have. Therefore your argument doesn't Exactly the point. It's parameter polymorphism in C++/Java. > hold here as they are simply *two different* methods, and not an > overriden one. In your code that uses the derived class you can still > use both methods (one without, and the one with parameters). To be compatible, the only thing you have to do is adding standard values to derived methods' parameters: $ php -d"error_reporting=8191" -r 'class c{function f(){}} class d extends c{function f($a){}}'; Strict Standards: Declaration of d::f() should be compatible with that of c::f() in Command line code on line 2 $ php -d"error_reporting=8191" -r 'class c{function f(){}} class d extends c{function f($a = null){}}'; $ [no error] This behaviour makes sense to me. -soenke