Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65103&edit=1
ID: 65103 Updated by: a...@php.net Reported by: knight at kopernet dot org Summary: consider the final keyword depracation -Status: Feedback +Status: Wont fix Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Class/Object related PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: @knight at kopernet dot org IMHO that should be either a request to implement something like Reflection makeInheritable() . The final keyword has its uses and PHP isn't Java. If you're really in the mood, please consider writing your thoughts about what should be done as improvement at this place, and discussing it on the internals list. Such a request is rather useless without discussing all possible pro and contra. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-06-25 04:36:35] larue...@php.net I think Final is very useful in the following case: like I did in Yaf, I got a Yaf class, there are some key resource need to be initialized. if these resource didn't intialized, then maybe segfault later. so, I defined a constructor. and do such initialization. but user can extends my Yaf class, and they also might define there own constructor, and doesn't call the parent::construct... so I make the Yaf::construct final.... every is fine now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-06-23 09:16:07] knight at kopernet dot org Description: ------------ The final keyword is widely recognized among many programmers that adopted OOP paradigim esp. comming from or knowing Java. I find it very problematic though. Without a real compilation stage using the final keyword in the type hints does not make sure that all execution paths in the calling code passes an object of the expected type. This is completely different from Java which actually makes sure the correctness of the passed arguments. Also when it comes to writing unit tests - there's no way to override a final class and test code that makes use or depends on such an object. Please consider deprecating, removing the final keyword or release the imposed restriction. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65103&edit=1
