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Eliminating empty functions page 7 of 15


Occasionally programmers new to object-oriented development and PHP may define subclasses that contain empty function definitions. This is necessary only if you intend to disable the behavior of a parent class -- generally as a result of a poor design in the first place.

Eliminate any empty functions, such as functions that simply return, and their function calls. The unnecessary overhead of calling a function that does nothing and then returning from it is eliminated.


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