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Re: out of sheer curiosity... [message #177595 is a reply to message #177589] Tue, 10 April 2012 16:19 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Jerry Stuckle is currently offline  Jerry Stuckle
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On 4/10/2012 11:37 AM, Thomas Mlynarczyk wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle schrieb:
>
>> But then there are so many ways PHP is lacking.
>
> Finally a sentence I completely agree with ;-)
>
>> __construct() and __clone() are constructors - a term specifically
>> used in OO terminology ("initializer" is not). Changing their name
>> does not change the facts.
>
> True. And I am aware that "initializer" is not official terminology. I
> used the word merely to better illustrate the purpose of those magic
> methods.
>
> Greetings,
> Thomas
>

But if you want to call it object oriented, you need to be using the
correct terminology. Here constructor and destructor have specific
meanings. Yes, one of the purposes (the main, many would argue,
including myself) is to initialize the object. But the term used is
constructor.

For instance, in other languages, part of the constructor's job might be
to dynamically allocate memory. That memory is not part of the original
memory allocated by new(), but it is part of the object. It is truly
"constructing" something, not just initializing it.

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