Re: [RFC] Remove PHP 4 Constructors
| From: | Xinchen Hui | Date: | Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:07:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Remove PHP 4 Constructors | ||
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On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Andrey Andreev <narf@devilix.net> wrote:
> 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().
I really doubt "most" here.
developers with c++ experience must feel it's very friendly.
thanks
>
> PHP can't support everything forever, old and nowadays rarely used
> syntax like this one must go away.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrey.
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Xinchen Hui
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