Posted by Toby A Inkster on 07/24/07 08:39

Sanders Kaufman wrote:

> My baseclass is not designed to be instantiated, and it kinda irked me
> that it could be. I even added a bit of PHPDoc to warn the developer
> not to try. But that's a lousy way to code!

In PHP5 you can mark this as an abstract class. The interpreter prevents
anyone from instantiating an abstract class.

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