Re: [PHP4BETA] OOP issue

Andi Gutmans wrote: > Why? In any case you have to hardcode X in the extends line so how does it > make it any more hardcoded if you also need to hardcode the X::X in the > constructor? I do normalize my data models, because I do not want to keep and update data in more than one place. Not normalizing does lead to all kinds of anomalies and errors. In all other places I reference the one and single original data value. Similarly, I don't think that keeping the name of the superclass in more than one place in my code is a good idea, because if that name changes, I'll have to change it all over the place. So I think it is enough to mention the name of the superclass in "extends ..." one time and the language should reference this automatically within the class. Anyway, I'd like a $super::_init() or $super->_init() (the second version looks more natural to me because of $this->_init()) much better than X::x(). Kristian -- Kristian Köhntopp, NetUSE Kommunikationstechnologie GmbH Siemenswall, D-24107 Kiel, Germany, +49 431 386 436 00 Using PHP3? See our web development library at http://phplib.netuse.de/ (We have moved! Update your bookmarks!)