Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:16564 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 93172 invoked by uid 1010); 8 Jun 2005 18:40:55 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 93157 invoked from network); 8 Jun 2005 18:40:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO coggeshall.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Jun 2005 18:40:55 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 69.56.217.178 unknown Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([69.56.217.178:49641] helo=coggeshall.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 1.2 r(5656M)) with SMTP id 19/3F-52832-6BB37A24 for ; Wed, 08 Jun 2005 14:40:55 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.253] (ool-45763a8e.dyn.optonline.net [69.118.58.142]) (authenticated bits=0) by coggeshall.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j58I0XPC020986 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:00:33 -0500 To: John LeSueur Cc: Stanislav Malyshev , PHP Development In-Reply-To: <42A73B87.302@supernerd.com> References: <42A73B87.302@supernerd.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 14:40:40 -0400 Message-ID: <1118256041.24241.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] abstract private methods From: john@coggeshall.org (John Coggeshall) Sure, except you can't create an instance of a class which contains abstract methods. On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 12:40 -0600, John LeSueur wrote: > 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 >