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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 06/25/06 01:26
IchBin wrote:
> David Haynes wrote:
>
>> Tony Marston wrote:
>>
>>> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
>>>
>>>> Actually, things like private declarations are very important. They
>>>> are unimportant only to those who don't understand OO programming -
>>>> or those who are sloppy in their implementations.
>>>
>>>
>>> You don't *need* private declarations. Code will work just as well
>>> without them.
>>>
>>
>> What the heck! Let's just throw away multiply and divide. We don't
>> *need* them. We can just use add and subtract.
>>
>> Heck! Why do we need subtract? We can just add negative values.
>>
>> Hey! Assembler works well without private declarations. Let's just
>> pitch PHP all together.
>>
>> The point is that constructs are added to language to assist in the
>> functionality and maintainability of programs written in that
>> language. The introduction of private and protected adds to the
>> maintainability both through its inherent protection capabilities and
>> its clarity of intent for the maintainer.
>>
>> Now if PHP could just get polymorphism...
>>
>> -david-
>>
>
> Sorry I am new to PHP but use Java. My question is how can you have a
> OOP Language and not have polymorphic features. Sorry, I have not gotten
> up to par on PHP yet.
>
> Thanks in Advance...
> IchBin, Pocono Lake, Pa, USA http://weconsultants.awardspace.com
> __________________________________________________________________________
>
> 'If there is one, Knowledge is the "Fountain of Youth"'
> -William E. Taylor, Regular Guy (1952-)
PHP does have some polymorphic-like abilities, but that's because of the untyped
nature of the variables.
PHP is getting better in it's OO aspects, but I doubt it will ever be quite like
Java. There's just a basic difference between languages with typed and untyped
variables.
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