Re: [PHP4BETA] calling member in parent class

On Sat, 5 Feb 2000 chagenbu@wso.williams.edu wrote: > I don't follow. If you use a code library - via include(), require(), or > possibly use() now - and you extend classes that the library provides, and in > your extended classes you call parent::foomethod()... > > If the library changes the name of a class you've used, you have effects _far_ > outside of one file. I buy the argument that it's not an essential feature, and > that you want to keep the language simple. But unless I'm missing something > major, the argument that you can't have effects outside of a single file doesn't > hold water. Since you already have to change the name of the class that your extending, it's only a matter of a search&replace on *that file*. Example: Foo.php: class Foo { ... } Bar.php: class Bar extends Foo { ... Foo::afun() ... } Now, when Foo changes to Foop, you *have* to change "class Bar extends Foo" to "class Bar extends Foop" anyway, so what's the big deal about searching and replacing in the entire file? Peter -------------------------------------------------- Peter D. Kovacs KnowPost.com LLC Pb Engineer peter@knowpost.com --------------------------------------------------