It's time to take the OOP plunge

[wheeler]

a quirk?

I basically assumed that when I instantiate a child class the parent class would also be instantiated, however this is not the case. Fortunately I found this which explained what was going on and I since use parent::__construct.

Does anyone else find it weird that it works like that? I don't know if I read in my java book that java will instantiate the parent or what, but I "assumed too much".

[McGruff]

Maybe I've just got used to a language I "grew up" in but I think that's the best way to do it. Derived classes should always be free to override anything higher up the inheritance hierarchy. This also rules out the use of final and private.