Re: [RFC] Deprecate properties using var
| From: | Stanislav Malyshev | Date: | Fri, 13 Feb 2015 07:51:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Deprecate properties using var | ||
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Hi!
> My proposal is to deprecate the use of var on properties in PHP 7, and then
> remove support for it in PHP 8. This compliments the [0] "Remove PHP 4
How the life of the PHP user would be improved by this? Except for
making more code break, I'm not sure how it's helpful, could you explain?
> Constructors" RFC, as it is old PHP 4 behaviour, and according to the docs
> is only "supported for compatibility reasons", and personally I think users
> should be encourage to use proper visibility when defining properties.
"var" is the same as "public", public is proper visibility.
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Stas Malyshev
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