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<?php class Hi { protected $message = 'Hello'; public function setMessage(string $message) { $this->message = $message; } public function sayHello() : string { return $this->message; } } class CopyCat extends Hi { public function __construct(Hi $realThing) // should be a named constructor instead { $this->message = & $realThing->message; } public function sayHello() : string { return 'Meow! ' . $this->message; } } $hi = new Hi; $hi->setMessage('Hello'); $copyCat = new CopyCat($hi); var_dump($hi->sayHello()); var_dump($copyCat->sayHello()); $hi->setMessage('Hi'); var_dump($hi->sayHello()); var_dump($copyCat->sayHello());
Output for 7.0.0 - 7.0.20, 7.1.0 - 7.1.33, 7.2.0 - 7.2.33, 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.34, 8.2.0 - 8.2.30, 8.3.0 - 8.3.30, 8.4.1 - 8.4.18, 8.5.0 - 8.5.3
string(5) "Hello" string(11) "Meow! Hello" string(2) "Hi" string(8) "Meow! Hi"
Output for 5.5.0 - 5.5.35, 5.6.0 - 5.6.28
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting ';' or '{' in /in/5vGrK on line 10
Process exited with code 255.

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