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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 20:49:28 -0800
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To: Ben Schmidt <mail_ben_schmidt@yahoo.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] A quick consensus on magic method idea
From: chrisstocktonaz@gmail.com (Chris Stockton)

Hello,

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Ben Schmidt
<mail_ben_schmidt@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> Do you yourself have any situation where this is useful? Does it solve
> some problem? Does it enable you to do things better than before?
>
> Ben.
>

It does not provide a solution to a currently unsolvable problem, it
is simply a convenience for situations when you want a class to
perform any kind of initialization directly after compilation/loading
(whatever term you find easier on the ears).

It provides a cleaner more encapsulated approach to a (not entirely
uncommon) case such as:

Foo.php:
class Foo {
  // class body
}

Foo::registerSomeStuff();


Just a idea I wanted to share,

-Chris