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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Default constructors
From: alex@kurilo.me (Alexander Kurilo)

On 18/11/14 14:00, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> Thanks for bringing this up and working on the patch.
>> Last time we discussed
>> this(http://www.serverphorums.com/read.php?7,712222,712635), there were
>> a couple of people including Anthony and Sanford who were agains this
>> feature arguing that it would encourage bad practices so I think it
>
> Obviously, I disagree with that. I do not see any bad practices it
> encourages - if anything, it encourages the good practice of always
> calling parent ctor, practice considered so good by many that some
> languages make it mandatory.

However, Java lets one have as many constructors as one wants because 
Java supports overloading and there's a default constructor that takes 
no arguments.

Does it *really* make sense for PHP? What if that parent class 'Animal' 
from your example introduces a constructor that accepts, say, both 
`$owner` and `$what` as mandatory arguments? `parent::__construct()` 
call in a descendant will appear broken (unintentionally, I suppose), 
won't it? That'll work in Java just fine, though.