Re: [PHP4BETA] calling member in parent class

On Fri, 4 Feb 2000 garyb@fxt.com wrote: > ZS said, > > Why? It's a matter of a trivial search&replace, it's not as if it's a > > big > > dael... > > I dunno, it appears to me that the usefulness of "parent" is at least as > high as "this". Well, it's not a matter of opinions really, here you're simply wrong. You can't do any OO programming in PHP without $this, period. On the other hand, there's nothing you cannot do in PHP, that you could do if we added parent/$patent. > I've also noticed the widespread use of declaration such as > var $classname="MyClassName"; > which is a strong hint that there is a set of information about a class that > is needed to be made available in an organized, sensible fashion, built in > so that folks don't have to make up their own schemes. > > And, gee, one more step or two (adding the ability to tell the user the > names of the functions, ...) and you have introspection. You can already get information about the class of a given object, without the need to manually define MyClassName (PHP 4.0 only). I'm not sure if someone created a function that returns the methosd a given object supports, but it's trivial to add. Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/