Re: php5 class initialization

At 09:16 AM 3/23/2004 -0800, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

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.

This is possible already. Andi