Re: [RFC] Remove PHP 4 Constructors

From: Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 07:48:36 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove PHP 4 Constructors
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Hi all,

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Johannes Schlüter <[email protected]>
wrote:

> > I am proposing E_DEPRECATED in PHP 5.7, just as the RFC for using
> > multiple default statements in switches (which was accepted, by the
> > way).
> >
> > Updating to PHP 5.7 first gives you more time to prepare for this and
> > other BC breaks for PHP 7. There are already a few, and I suspect
> > we'll have a few more before it's shipped.
>
> Yay! Instead of helping users to keep up to date and respecting their
> needs we give them reasons to stay on old versions for making things
> "cleaner". How wonderful.
>
> All things said for this thread.


How about use INI until PHP8?

BTW, old constructor has problem with traits (is this mentioned already?)

http://3v4l.org/KZKXo

I suppose nobody is using this side effect in production code, but
there would be number of users who are confused by this behavior.

Regards,

--
Yasuo Ohgaki
[email protected]


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