> 2007/12/31, Mikko Koppanen > Calling methods without knowing that they exist sounds like a hack to me. How > about using abstract classes or interfaces?
If you look at, for example, python - calling methods that don't *know* exists is common practice, it's not a hack from my point of view. It's just easier to ask forgiveness then permission, to quote Hopper. I never understood the direction PHP is heading with type hinting, static binding (SPL-Types?), etc. While I don't directly oppose it I don't see any reason for it. I just thought that adding some type of ability to handle unknown method calls (without forcing *every* class to implement __call() in a specific way) would be a nice way for those of us that want to continue to use php as the dynamic, duck-typed language we learned. Maybe it will fall on deaf ears, but I thought it was worth a chance and at least propose it here on internals. Regards, Fredrik. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
