Re: __constructor parameter limitations.

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:50, Gustavo Lopes <glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt> wrote: > Em Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:18:50 +0100, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> > escreveu: > > On 9/19/11 2:12 AM, Gustavo Lopes wrote: >> >>> Arbitrary as it may be, it's nevertheless reasonably arbitrated given how >>> little useful it is to just ignore arguments and how likely it is to a >>> mistake. >>> >> >> It is not little useful and it is not likely to make such mistake without >> immediately being notified and corrected. >> > > In the cases where you do want to ignore arguments (say overgenerous > interfaces that give you more information than you need to make a > decision), relaxing the parameter checks would not be very helpful: > > * It had to be case that the parameters you want to ignore are the last > * You could just put the arguments in the signature and still ignore them > (perhaps also giving them a dummy default value so that they don't have to > be passed). > > So there's little to be gained here. > There is surely little to be gained here, but that's not really the point. The point is that we are currently diverging from the theory, so we should have a BIG gain of doing so, not the opposite. > > -- > Gustavo Lopes > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Etienne Kneuss http://www.colder.ch