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Tue, 10 April 2012 12:04

Jerry Stuckle
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On 4/10/2012 7:44 AM, Thomas Mlynarczyk wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle schrieb:
>
>> In OO terminology, the correct term is "constructor". I'm not familiar
>> with Python, so I can't say what Python calls it. But the name is not
>> as important as the job.
>
> True. But one still has to keep in mind that the constructor is not
> constructing the object, but initializing it.
>

It does more than that. The system allocates memory for the object.
The constructor parcels out that memory into the appropriate pieces then
initializes those pieces. In truth, it does "construct" the object.

>> Initialization is NEVER harmful if it is done properly. That's the
>> whole purpose of initialization!. wakeup() is NOT a constructor - any
>> more than sleep() is a destructor.
>
> You would have to take extra measures to prevent re-initializing an
> already initialized object. Your constructor would need to detect what
> type of initialization is required (freshly created by `new`, cloned or
> unserialized). While certainly possible, this would be cumbersome.
> Different magic initializers are clearly the better way to go.
>

A serialized object is not an object. By definition, an object has both
state (properties) and behavior (methods operating on those properties).
A serialized object has only state - it is not an object.

True OO languages handle this quite well. But PHP can't seem to figure
that out. But then there are so many ways PHP is lacking.

>> wakeup() is not a constructor. If you consider it a constructor, then
>> you must also consider sleep() to be a destructor - in which case it
>> would be illegal to call the destructor after calling sleep().
>
> __wakeup() is an initializer, just like __construct() and __clone(). And
> __sleep() is still not a destructor -- see my earlier post.
>

__construct() and __clone() are constructors - a term specifically used
in OO terminology ("initializer" is not). Changing their name does not
change the facts.

>> It is the opposite of wakeup() - just like __construct() is the
>> opposite of __destruct(). You can't have it both ways.
>
> I think we do agree that __sleep() is not a destructor. And maybe we can
> agree that __construct(), __clone() and __wakeup() all perform
> initialization tasks and thus could be all called "initializers".
>
> Greetings,
> Thomas
>
>

I agree that __construct() and __clone() are constructors. There is no
"initializer" in OO terminology. Only "constructor".

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