I think that it is great time to end to PHP 4 constructors system for PHP 7.
IMO, It's a good RFC.
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Levi Morrison <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Internals,
>
> I am proposing an RFC[1] to remove PHP 4 constructors in PHP 7. If
> accepted, methods with the same name as their defining class will no
> longer be recognized as constructors. As noted in the RFC, there are
> already many situations where we do not recognize these methods as
> constructors, such as in namespaces and traits and when `function
> __construct` is also present.
>
> Andrea Faulds has kindly written a utility that identifies when a PHP
> 4 constructor is defined[2]. It does not automatically change the code
> for liability reasons. The utility PHPMD[3] can also detect this but
> has a false positive when __construct is also defined.
>
> Cheers,
> Levi Morrison
>
>
> [1]: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_php4_constructors
> [2]: https://github.com/TazeTSchnitzel/PHP4_Constructor_Finder
> [3]:
> http://phpmd.org/rules/naming.html#constructorwithnameasenclosingclass
>
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