Re: Re: Returning PEAR_Error object from constructor

[Hans Westerbeek <hw@xs4all.nl>] > Hi all, > > On 25 Apr 2001, Stig [iso-8859-1] Sæther Bakken wrote: > > > Zeev, is overwriting $this in the constructor to have "new" return a > > different object a bug/misfeature or can we rely on it? :-) > > To my best OO-knowledge a constructor does not have a return type, not > even 'void'. Look at some C++ / Java constructors of classes. You will > never see a 'return' statement in those. I am well aware of the fact that > PHP != C++ || Java but I do think that the way OO is implemented in those > languages gives a *very* good idea of how it should be done. True. That's why the concept never occurred to me before. :-) > What we need for these error objects is exceptions that can be caught ;-) > That way we'd get rid of those get_class statements which seem strange to > me. > > Oops i think i'm asking for stronger typing ;-).. Dunno if that is the way > to go for PHP ;-) Naah. Although I've seen a looseish-typed language (LPC, for those of who who know MUDs) become stronger-typed and actually gain execution performance in the process. - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb@fast.no> Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway