note 109039 deleted from language.oop5.inheritance by danbrown

Note Submitter: miguel dot perez at afina dot es ---- You can't redefine methods in inherited classes with a different arity (which makes a lot of sense in many situations, including but not limiting to variable arguments). It's not even a limitation of the Zend engine; it just throws an E_STRICT on purpose because somewhere, somebody thought this should not be possible and liked limitations. WHY OH WHY. This object system is a toy which combines the disadvantages of Python with the disadvantages of Java, as well as some new ones that didn't exist in either. It looks passable — not even good, too much noise and too Javish — when you do a toy example like class Worker extends Person, but as soon as you get into real applications and frameworks... good luck calling a callable property, redefining class methods or properties, giving dynamic default values (such as function(){}) to properties in class definitions, and so on.