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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:09:08 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Scalar type hinting
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 13:05 -0600, Richard Lynch wrote:
> 
> I'd have to come up with some OTHER scenario not involving fatal
> error, such as:
> 
> strict $db = new DB();

The example is wrong. The new operator will always return an instance of
the given class (or there will be an exception). Use

strict $db = DB::factory();

for your example instead.

johannes