If Nathan's suggestion is not just an unreliable side effect, maybe this
should be documented. (ie changed from Feature/Change request)
regards,
Alan.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Cassano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 11:11 AM
Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP 4.0 Bug #9253: Class constructors can't return
values
> You can return a value from a class constructor. It's just not that
obvious.
>
> class myclass {
>
> function myclass() {
>
> if($err){
> $this = $err;
> return;
> }
> }
>
> }
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 2:23 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP-DEV] PHP 4.0 Bug #9253: Class constructors can't return
> values
>
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Operating system: All
> PHP version: 4.0.4pl1
> PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
> Bug description: Class constructors can't return values
>
> Class constructors can't abort instance creation, for example by returning
> false...
> This leads to a lot of "if (! $newobj->status)" crap.
> Why is that ? I found a message on the PHP3 mailing list about this, but
> it's still not there.
>
>
> --
> Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=9253&edit=1
>
>
>
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