Re: [RFC] Default constructors

On 18/11/14 14:00, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:

Hi!

Thanks for bringing this up and working on the patch. Last time we discussed this(http://www.serverphorums.com/read.php?7,712222,712635), there were a couple of people including Anthony and Sanford who were agains this feature arguing that it would encourage bad practices so I think it

Obviously, I disagree with that. I do not see any bad practices it encourages - if anything, it encourages the good practice of always calling parent ctor, practice considered so good by many that some languages make it mandatory.

However, Java lets one have as many constructors as one wants because Java supports overloading and there's a default constructor that takes no arguments. Does it *really* make sense for PHP? What if that parent class 'Animal' from your example introduces a constructor that accepts, say, both $owner and $what as mandatory arguments? parent::__construct() call in a descendant will appear broken (unintentionally, I suppose), won't it? That'll work in Java just fine, though.