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[Anthony Ferrara]

The constructor's return value is always ignored internally. So the only
time the constructor's return is ever used is in a child-class.

if (parent::__construct()) {
    // blah
}

But I'd argue that if you need to do that, inheritance isn't what you need,
but another form of composition...

Anthony


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:34 AM, David Mintz <david at davidmintz.org> wrote:

> This might be little more than a matter of style, but I would add that I
> don't think Person's  __construct() should return a boolean. By definition
> it returns an instance of the Person class, so you need not explicitly
> return anything.
>
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