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Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 18:44:50 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Changing the visibility of constructors?
From: thekid@thekid.de (Timm Friebe)

On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 18:28, Andrey Hristov wrote:
> Hello internals,
> what's your opinion on whether the constructors must follow one of the
> principles of the polymorphism - "The visibility in extending classes must be
> the same or better".
[...]
> Currently this code emits a compilation error.

Not just one: Fatal error: Cannot use 'parent' as class name as it is
reserved:)

AFAIS, you only run into this in cases where your base class has a
public constructor or any other public methods extended class might want
to make private or protected (see the thread about having a built-in
base class with all methods implemented - one more reason for not having
one).

I'm fine with the current solution. Everything else is sloppy, IMHO.

- Timm