Re: php5 class initialization
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:16:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: php5 class initialization | ||
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On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, George Schlossnagle wrote:
> On Mar 23, 2004, at 11:53 AM, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> >> What would you expect? That if a new style constructor is defined we
> >> always
> >> use that and allow old-style as regular method?
> >
> > Yep.
>
>
> I agree with the part about the new-style constructor always being
> preferred to the old-style constructor, but besides being really
> confusing, where do you being able to call the old-style as a regular
> method coming in handy?
I could see people doing:
class foo {
function foo() {
...constructor stuff...
}
function __construct() {
$this->foo();
}
}
In order to make the class work on both PHP4 and PHP5 in which case it
would be essential for foo() to be callable as a regular method in the
class.
-Rasmus