# Base and derived class construction - Thread: https://externals.io/message/10809 - Original archive: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/10809 - Started by Jason Davidson on 2004-06-27T22:12:32+00:00 - Messages: 2 - Reply by email to internals@lists.php.net - More for agents: search with https://externals.io/search.md?q={query} · JSON API at https://externals.io/api · documentation at https://externals.io/llms.txt --- ## #10809 — Jason Davidson — 2004-06-27T22:12:32+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/10809#10809 Quite possible you had something else in mind, im just interested in knowing why its done this way, is it for performance sake, is it becuase you beleive php is more flexable this way, is it becuase it just happened to be as such... Im not being critical, Im being curious... Jason Marcus Boerger wrote: > > Hello Jason, > > maybe this time we neither had c++ nor java in mind, this time it was > delphi. > > regards > marcus > > > Sunday, June 27, 2004, 8:44:45 AM, you wrote: > > > […] > > > […] > > > […] > > > > > -- > Best regards, > Marcus mailto:helly@php.net --- ## #10837 — Marcus Boerger — 2004-06-29T17:57:13+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/10809#10837 · In reply to: #10809 Hello Jason, to be honest i don't really care. Since i am a C++ guy who loves types i'd appreciate automatic calling of inherited constructors/destructors. But php does not have types and so the non implicit calling version gives us a little bit more flexibility. Since we also don't have polymorphism the current solution seems to fit best. I hope this is a better answer. A thing which could be changed though (if we haven't fixed down everything in that area) is to change to automatically call inherited destructors. regards marcus Monday, June 28, 2004, 12:12:32 AM, you wrote: > Quite possible you had something else in mind, im just interested in > knowing why its done this way, is it for performance sake, is it > becuase you beleive php is more flexable this way, is it becuase it > just happened to be as such... > Im not being critical, Im being curious... > Jason > Marcus Boerger wrote: > > […] -- Best regards, Marcus mailto:helly@php.net