Hi folks. Somewhat philosophical question here.
I have heard, although not confirmed, that the trend in the Java world in the
past several years has been away from constructors. That is, rather than
this:
class Foo {
public void Foo(Object a, Object b, Object c) {}
}
Foo f = new Foo(a, b, c);
The preference is now for this:
class Foo {
public void setA(Object a) {}
public void setB(Object b) {}
public void setC(Object c) {}
}
Foo f = new Foo(a, b, c);
f.setA(a);
f.setB(b);
f.setC(c);
I suppose there is some logic there when working with factories, which you
should be doing in general. However, I don't know if that makes the same
degree of sense in PHP, even though the OO models are quite similar.
So, I'll throw the question out. Who uses example 1 above vs. example 2 when
writing dependency-injection-based OOP? Why? What trade-offs have you
encountered, and was it worth it?
--Larry Garfield
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