On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 21:31, Joshua Stoutenburg <jehoshua02@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> But let me put a spin on it:
>
> <?php
>
> $information = <<<EOF
>
> I got a great idea, why don't we write hundreds of books and websites
> with all of our repetitive answers and call it the "information age".
> Who cares if all the priceless pearls of rare knowledge are buried,
> lost, and irretrievable. We'll have the information age!
>
> Then, after we've ushered in the information age, we'll invent a
> search bot to crawl all over the heap of information and fling it
> around whenever somebody asks for it!
>
> Then, we'll all sit around on a mailing list, and when somebody comes
> in seeking refuge from the flinging search bot, looking for some rare
> piece of information, we'll fling all the common stuff at him instead!
> It will be hilarious!
>
> EOF;
>
>
> class baboon
> {
> $ammo = '';
Parse error. You probably mean: var $ammo;
> public __construct($ammo)
Parse error. You probably mean: public function __construct($ammo)
> {
> $this->ammo = $ammo;
> }
>
> public function flingAt($target)
> {
> $target->flingAlert($this->ammo);
Fatal error. Unless you meant to create infinite recursion with
baboon::flingAt().
> }
> }
>
>
> $me = new baboon($information);
> $you = new baboon();
Since you didn't have a fallback definition in your __construct(),
this will throw a missing argument warning. It will also then give an
undefined variable warning when it tries to define baboon::$ammo.
> $me->flingAt($you);
Trying to work with an object here? Since we're missing the
baboon::flingAlert() definition, I'm curious to see how the object is
handled.
Oh, Friday....
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</Daniel P. Brown>
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