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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:58:36 -0500
To: lingwitt@bellsouth.net
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] The __clone Wars
From: george@omniti.com (George Schlossnagle)


On Jan 19, 2004, at 3:52 PM, lingwitt@bellsouth.net wrote:
>  In other words, should it be like this:

Yes.

>
> P.S.
>
> Perhaps the $this object should already be set using the default 
> implementation, and then the user could override certain properties if 
> he so wishes; I believe the preliminary documentation says that this 
> is the case, but it doesn't work like this.

If you want the default cloning mechanism, you should just use the 
default clone method.  If you specify your own __clone method, then 
you've effectively said 'I know what I am doing and how I want to do 
it.'  Magical setting of attributes would

a) be confusing
b) cause twice the work to be done for any variables you don't want to 
be as default

George