Re: [RFC] Remove PHP 4 Constructors

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> 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. > > Cheers, > Levi Morrison > I'm +1 on this RFC. I've lost count of the number of times I had to debug some "completely impossible" behavior I got while writing quick testing code (which is obviously not namespaced), because I accidentally created a class "Test" with a method "test" or similar. I'm also pretty confident that we can provide robust tooling for automatically porting code to new constructors - including updating parent:: call references if need be. Don't see how that would be a particular issue here. Nikita