Re: [PHP7] Remove the function keyword from class methods?

Hi 2014-10-03 22:00 GMT+02:00 Arvids Godjuks <arvids.godjuks@gmail.com>: > Hello internals. > > I'm firmly against removing the "function" keyword. PHP is a dynamic > language, that means that even using the latest most functional IDE's out > there, finding the implementation is not always few clicks away (PhpStorm's > "Find Usages") and you need to do a search in the project. And the only > thing, that makes it fast and easy, is the "function" keyword, because you > can do a search by "function nameISearchFor" and get a single hit. > > I'm not even mentioning the code readability... I highly doubt THAT many names properties or constants in paticular with the same name as a method, and honestly, is it that bad to get a few extra search results? I think that seems like a very thin argument against this. For readablity, the only situration I can think of that can create some fuzzy is something like this; abstract class A { b(); } Abstract class with a method and the visibility modifier omitted, looks like a function call inside a block of code but that is pretty much about it, but in a non example type of context, even that would add more readability to that fuzzy example: abstract class Driver { connect($host, $username, $password, $database); close(); } Thats for saying, I'm not against removing it, but I'm not in hugely favor for doing so either, lets call that neutral. -- regards, Kalle Sommer Nielsen kalle@php.net