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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Default constructors
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

Andrea Faulds wrote on 18/11/2014 13:11:
>> On 18 Nov 2014, at 12:47, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa <
>> ivan.enderlin@hoa-project.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello :-),
>>>
>>> Is it not simpler to create a super-object whom all objects are children
>>> of? Something similar to the Java `Object`?
>> yeah, this was also a suggested alternative when discussing this problem
>> previously(see the link in my previous mail).
> I'd certainly like it if everything descended from some class (Object? StdClass?), but I don't like the idea of an empty construct. As Anthony pointed out last time, you can't do inheritance and simultaneously treat the parent class as a black box.

The thing is that without any way of monkey-patching the default object, 
there isn't much difference between "all objects have a default 
constructor" and "all objects have a default parent", other than "$foo 
instanceOf Object" always returning true.

Regards,
-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]