Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:16562 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 87236 invoked by uid 1010); 8 Jun 2005 18:37:36 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 87221 invoked from network); 8 Jun 2005 18:37:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO supernerd.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Jun 2005 18:37:36 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 208.187.189.114 unknown Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([208.187.189.114:38667] helo=linus.supernerd.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 1.2 r(5656M)) with SMTP id 53/3E-52832-FEA37A24 for ; Wed, 08 Jun 2005 14:37:36 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by linus.supernerd.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E10B9333; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 12:38:35 -0700 (MST) Received: from linus.supernerd.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (linus [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 17633-04; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 12:38:24 -0700 (MST) Received: from [10.0.0.6] (c-67-161-219-95.hsd1.ut.comcast.net [67.161.219.95]) by linus.supernerd.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F6BDB94E4; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 12:38:24 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <42A73B87.302@supernerd.com> Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 12:40:07 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (Windows/20041201) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stanislav Malyshev Cc: PHP Development References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at linus.supernerd.com Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] abstract private methods From: john@supernerd.com (John LeSueur) Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > As of now, PHP allows declaring abstract private methods. Does anyone > has any use for it? IMO, it is meaningless and should be disallowed > (basically it just says "this method does not exist and never will") > but maybe I am not seeing some use for it. It can be used to reserve a function for future use? John LeSueur