Re: stdClass

Oh, yes and special methods that you mentioned would come in handy too but from a object perspective. Maybe explicitly calling some sort finalize() method to clean un-referenced objects would also be handy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jakes Potgieter" <jakespotgieter@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: php.internals To: <hartmut@php-groupies.de> Cc: <internals@lists.php.net>; "Stephan Schmidt" <schst@php-tools.net> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 4:42 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] stdClass > When Im talking about something like this would come in handy > obviously doesnt work! The paramter null could be added, to get > desired result but to be programmatically correct: > > class MyOverload{ > function __construct($Foo) { > $this->Foo = $Foo; > } > // overload the constructor > function __construct(String $Foo, String $Bar){ > $this->Foo = $Foo; > $this->Bar = $Bar; > } > public function doSomething(){ > if($this->Foo != null && $this->Bar == null){ > return $this->Foo . " needs a partner"; > // do something with Foo > }elseif($this->Foo != null && $this->Bar != null){ > return $this->Foo . " and " . $this->Bar . " are partners"; //do > something with Foo and Bar > } > } > private $Foo; > private $Bar; > } > > $obj = new MyOverload("Mary"); > print $obj->doSomething(); > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hartmut Holzgraefe" <hartmut@php.net> > To: "Jakes Potgieter" <jakespotgieter@hotmail.com> > Cc: "Stephan Schmidt" <schst@php-tools.net>; <internals@lists.php.net> > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 4:20 PM > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] stdClass > > > > Jakes Potgieter wrote: > > > It would be nice to have a base class to inherit some special > > > methods as we do in Java. > > > > could you name which ones you think of? > > > > being out of the JAVA camp for several years know i no longer > > know all java.object methods and properties by heart, but > > PHP mechanisms like __sleep()/__wakeup(), __toString() and > > the introspection related functions like get_class() and > > friends should provide comparable behaviour ... > > > > (IMHO the fact that any object in JAVA can be casted down > > to java.object is not that clever after all, and part of it > > is only due to the fact that there is no other way to have > > portable container classes, which is now finally solved > > with generics) > > > > > The same as method overloading, > > > one of the most important aspects missing in PHP5 and the > > > new object model. > > > > due to the feature of optional parameters you may end up with > > more than one overloaded function matching a call signature, > > due to the fact that argument types in a function call > > are not known at compile time signature matching would have > > to happen at runtime, > > and the language syntax would need to be extended to add > > parameter type specifiers to function parameter declarations > > (ok, we already have this one for interfaces ...) > > > > -- > > Hartmut Holzgraefe <hartmut@php.net> > >