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Stanislav Malyshev

21 years ago

As of now, PHP allows declaring abstract private methods. Does anyone has
any use for it? IMO, it is meaningless and should be disallowed (basically
it just says "this method does not exist and never will") but maybe I am
not seeing some use for it.

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Unnamed Person

21 years ago

Stanislav Malyshev wrote:

> As of now, PHP allows declaring abstract private methods. Does anyone
> has any use for it? IMO, it is meaningless and should be disallowed
> (basically it just says "this method does not exist and never will")
> but maybe I am not seeing some use for it.

It can be used to reserve a function for future use?

John LeSueur

Stanislav Malyshev

21 years ago

JL>>It can be used to reserve a function for future use?

I'm not quite understanding this concept - if you can't use it in the
code in no way, why declare it at all?

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John Coggeshall

21 years ago

Sure, except you can't create an instance of a class which contains
abstract methods.


On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 12:40 -0600, John LeSueur wrote:

Andi Gutmans

21 years ago

Nope, I don't see any use for that.

At 09:29 PM 6/8/2005 +0300, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:

Sebastian Bergmann

21 years ago

Stanislav Malyshev wrote:

> As of now, PHP allows declaring abstract private methods. Does anyone
> has any use for it?

I do not see a use for this and I think it should be disallowed;
abstract methods only make sense when declared public or protected.

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