== Quote from Hans Lellelid ([EMAIL PROTECTED])'s article
> In more traditional PHP this works fine:
>
> class A {
> function init() { ... }
> function doSomething($arg1, $arg2) { ... }
> }
>
> class B extends A {
> function doSomething($arg1, $arg2, $arg3, $arg4 = null) { ... }
> function doSomethingElse($arg1) { ... }
> }
Even if PHP allows it, there is however a problem.
Imagine you write code that assumes to have a A object. So you call doSomething() with
only 2 arguments.
If you now pass to this code a B object, you will have an error because $arg3 is not
provided.
So adding arguments to an overloaded method should only be done if the additionnal
arguments have a default value.
Stephane
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