Re: stdClass

You calling it from the base so cleaning you be easier than looking for object referenced variables and setting them to null. Working in a large class hierarchy it could get painful. "Michael Walter" <cm@leetspeak.org> wrote in message news:403F5A6B.3000405@leetspeak.org... > Jakes wrote: > > 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. > How does that differ from $x=null; with a reference-counting garbage > collector? > > Cheers, > Michael > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jakes Potgieter" <jakespotgieter@hotmail.com> > > Newsgroups: php.internals > > To: <hartmut@php-groupies.de> > > Cc: <internals@lists.php.net>; "Stephan Schmidt" > > <schst@php-tools.net> > > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 4:42 PM > > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] stdClass > > > > > > > >>When Im talking about something like this would come in handy > >>obviously doesnt work! The paramter null could be added, to get > >>desired result but to be programmatically correct: > >> > >>class MyOverload{ > >> function __construct($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> > >>> > >