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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: new overloading feature?
From: lsmith@php.net (Lukas Smith)

George Schlossnagle wrote:

> I'm not an OO expert, but doesn't this break a fundamental semantic of 
> OOP -- namely that new() returns a new object of the specified class.  
> Isn't this the whole reason that the Singleton pattern exists?

yeah I would agree that we should always try to find a non magic 
solution and in this case a singleton seems to be the obvious choice. 
however currently its kinda hard to write a singleton that will work 
even if you inherit from the base class that implements the singleton 
due to:
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=30235

regards,
Lukas