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Re: Object constructors/destructors [message #185094 is a reply to message #185090] Wed, 26 February 2014 02:10 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Jerry Stuckle is currently offline  Jerry Stuckle
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On 2/25/2014 6:22 PM, Adam Harvey wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:01:52 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> On 2/25/2014 4:55 PM, Christoph Michael Becker wrote:
>>> I firmly believe that it wouldn't make sense to call a (user-defined)
>>> constructor when unserializing or cloning an object. A constructor
>>> usually serves to initialize an object -- what already had happened in
>>> both cases.
>>>
>>>
>> It makes perfect sense. Not everything is necessarily valid in the new
>> object. For instance, a logging object may require opening the log
>> file. There are many instances where a resource is no longer available
>> and needs to be recreated.
>
> Indeed, which is why PHP provides the Serializable interface (and, for BC
> reasons, also __sleep and __wakeup) to allow those sorts of
> reinitialisation tasks.
>
> I agree with Christoph: since the object is already instantiated, it
> doesn't logically make sense to call the constructor once again.
>

But the object is NOT instantiated. It was at one time, then destroyed.
When the new script starts, there is no object in existence.

>>> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>>> I know of no other OO language which would allow this.
>>>
>>> Others may.
>>>
>>>
>> None that I know of. Please name one.
>
> Python's pickle operates the same way:
> http://docs.python.org/2/library/pickle.html#object.__getinitargs__
>
> Providing a way to instantiate objects without calling the constructor
> does have valid uses (mostly for testing), which is why PHP 5.4 and later
> versions also provide a way to do so via reflection (avoiding the
> unserialize() hack):
> http://php.net/reflectionclass.newinstancewithoutconstructor
>
> Adam
>

Not knowing Python, I can't say. But if it is a true object, then they
are also violating OO principles.

OO demands creation of a new object requires a constructor call.
Period. If you think otherwise, I suggest you learn more about how OO
is supposed to work. PHP is not a good example.



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