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ID: 38569 Comment by: dagguh at gmail dot com Reported by: psykora at gmail dot com Summary: override keyword requested Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Feature/Change Request Operating System: Irrelevant PHP Version: 5.1.5 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: This is a valid feature request. If this change is implemented, the override keyword SHOULD be mandatory for overridden methods, but this way backwards compatibility would be broken. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-12-12 19:52:41] michael at dmgx dot com Agreed. Currently I use a comment to place the word there just to help myself out visually. I.E. public /*override*/ function foo () {} Override shouldn't be required per se - but if used it should throw an error when the parent method doesn't exist. BTW, this has been added to Actionscript 3 which is where I first saw it. Adobe mentions having the keyword helps out their compiler - so maybe the Zend Engine could make use of the keyword as well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-08-23 15:24:19] psykora at gmail dot com Description: ------------ The override keyword (f.e. like C#.NET has) could be usefull for specifing to compiler, that current method is overriding parent's class method. Compiler then should throw Fatal Error when there is no parent's method for override. This could resolve common mistakes when developer changes (or removes) abstract method from parent's class. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=38569&edit=1