Re: constructor hook

From: Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:07:13 +0000
Subject: Re: constructor hook
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On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 08:19 -0400, Rasmus Schultz wrote: > Hey, > > I'm going to make this brief, because I suspect a lot of people are going > to jump at the opportunity to cry bloody murder when I suggest this. > > I wonder if it would make sense to have a way to globally hook into > __construct() - sort of like how you can hook into the autoloaders with > spl_autoload_register() ... > > This could be useful for things like dependency injection and debugging. I don't think it's a good thing to have. "new" right now gives you a clear idea whats going on. Magic behind the scenes is hard to debug. If you really want it: https://github.com/johannes/php-test-helpers johannes

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