Re: [RFC] Remove PHP 4 Constructors
| From: | Andrey Andreev | Date: | Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:32:26 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Remove PHP 4 Constructors | ||
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Hi,
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Xinchen Hui <laruence@php.net> wrote:
>
> leave it there doesn't hurt anybody. but remove it will. why we need to ?
>
Leaving it does hurt. Most developers with no PHP4 experience don't
know that such a feature exists and spend hours trying to figure out
why a parent class' constructor isn't getting called when it's not
overriden by self::__construct().
PHP can't support everything forever, old and nowadays rarely used
syntax like this one must go away.
Cheers,
Andrey.