Re: Explicit constructor call and polymorphic dispatch

On 1/14/2017 7:10 PM, Michał Brzuchalski wrote: > AFAIK parent is a speciual scope which help refers to variables and > functions in base classe > http://php.net/manual/kr/keyword.parent.php > So it looks like proposing your syntax could lead to huge BC break. > In other languages (eg. Java) there is special syntax quite similar with > super($a, $b) call. > super **is** Java’s parent keyword. There is definitely no breaking change here by enabling parent() as an alternative to parent::__construct() since it has no functionality at all right now. As a matter of fact, PHP currently aborts with a fatal error: ``` Fatal error: Call to undefined function parent() in ``` Reversing keywords in the global scope is done regularly in PHP minor versions, hence, that would not be a problem either. I see only one single problem, users might expect that parent() actually should call parent::__invoke(). However, that is not the case right now and nobody ever asked for it plus it is a little used feature anyways which does not require special treatment (imho). Regarding the fatal error on a missing constructor implementation in the parent. I fully agree that this should be possible. -- Richard "Fleshgrinder" Fussenegger