note 27486 added to keyword.parent

Um, reading through all the gyrations on getting C++ constructor semantics from PHP, I am wondering if I am just blindly missing something when I use: class A { function A () { echo "A Constructor\n"; } } class B extends A { function B () { $this->A (); echo "B Constructor\n"; } } class C extends B { function C () { $this->B (); echo "C Constructor\n"; } } $c = new C (); produces: A Constructor B Constructor C Constructor I'm new to PHP, but it seems to me that this is simpler and cleaner than the solutions discussed here, with the only disadvantage being that when you change the name of your superclass you have to change one line in your subclass. What am I missing? Are there advanced PHP-OO considerations that make this code undesireable?? -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/keyword.parent.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+27486 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+27486 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+27486