Posted by Rik on 06/14/06 12:13

Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> Yes, you should treat the array as private, even in PHP 4 where you
> can't
> declare it such. One of the purposes of OO is to hide implementation
> details - such as your data members.
>
> The following (slightly modified from your previous post) works for
> me on PHP 5.1.2:
>
> <snip code>

That's what I tried, but PHP4 has thsi to say about thes second ->:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR, expecting ',' or
';'

PHP5 indeed handles this with no problems.

Maybe this has something to do with returning by reference?

Grtz,
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Rik Wasmus

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