C++ – Talking About Methods vs Member Functions

I mostly agree with you, but for fun I'll play Devil's Advocate. Explicit interfaces give a single place to look for an explicitly, formally specified contract, telling you what a type is supposed to do. This can be important when you're not the only developer on a project.

Furthermore, these explicit interfaces can be implemented more efficiently than duck typing. A virtual function call has barely more overhead than a normal function call, except that it can't be inlined. Duck typing has substantial overhead. C++-style structural typing (using templates) can generate huge amounts of object file bloat (since each instantiation is independent at the object file level) and doesn't work when you need polymorphism at runtime, not compile time.

Bottom line: I agree that Java-style inheritance and polymorphism can be a PITA and alternatives should be used more often, but it still has its advantages.

A switch is considered not OOP because often polymorphism can do the trick.

In your case, an OOP implementation could be this:

class Oop 
{
  protected $goer;

  public function __construct($goer)
  {
    $this->goer = $goer;
  }

  public function go()
  {
    return $this->goer->go();
  }
}

class Goer
{
  public function go()
  {
    //...
  }
}

class GoerA extends Goer
{
  public function go()
  {
    //...
  }
}

class GoerB extends Goer
{
  public function go()
  {
    //...
  }
}

class GoerC extends Goer
{
  public function go()
  {
    //...
  }
}


$oop = new Oop(new GoerB());
$oop->go();