Re: [RFC][DISCUSSION] Deprecation of fallback to root scope

I get that people want to do that, it's so comfortable. But is it really a good idea? When I have that kind of problem, I use: class Foo{ protected $date = "date"; function getDate(){ return ($this->date)(); } } $mockFoo = new class extends Foo{ protected $date = "my_fake_date"; }; Or dependency injection (I inject the function as closure in the ctor). Alternatively, you could consider using https://github.com/krakjoe/uopz which allows to redefine functions at runtime.