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To: "'Rick Fletcher'" <rick@snocap.com>, <internals@lists.php.net>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 22:56:22 +0100
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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] A misleading error message
From: wez@thebrainroom.com ("Wez Furlong")
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The message is correct; Two is abstract since you haven't implemented a
"real" version of bar().

--Wez.

> With 5RC2 the following code produces a the fatal error 
> "Cannot instantiate
> abstract class Two."  In fact Two is not an abstract class, 
> so the wording
> tripped me up for a minute.
> 
> The error actually occurs because Two doesn't implement all of One's
> abstract methods.  Could someone make a change to the error message?
> 
> <?php
> 
> 	abstract class One {
> 		abstract function foo();
> 		abstract function bar();
> 	}
> 
> 	class Two extends One {
> 		public function foo() {}
> 	}
> 
> 	new Two;
> 
> ?>