hi,
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.
Not much to say about it as it is a taste/yes/no thing.
Let wait the required period and move to vote, I do not see much needs
to argue in a circular way forever :)
Cheers,
--
Pierre
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