PHP PEAR Questions and Answers - Re: [PEAR-QA] CS Clarifications

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Re: [PEAR-QA] CS Clarifications

Richard York

2004-09-25, 8:59 am

Justin Patrin wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 05:44:21 -0500, Richard York <richy@smilingsouls.net> wrote:
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> If you use a "static" call, extending and overriding are impossible.
> It's much better to use $this. If it happens not to call Mail_IMAP's
> connect, then that's what's supposed to happen. I say don't use
> namespaced calls unless you're calling the function statically.

I just don't see why anyone would /want/ to override a method in
Mail_IMAP. Regardless of that, I'm all for flexibliity anyway. So I've
decided to just go ahead and update to "$this->".

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Richard York
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