On Mon, 10 May 2021 at 21:59, Larry Garfield <la...@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
> 1) Please don't top-post. > > 2) The reason is that the old way doesn't provide any way to populate them > on construction. The pattern of "assign the arg to the prop in the > constructor" is stupendously common, and promotion makes it vastly more > convenient. > > For more details: > > https://platform.sh/blog/2020/php-80-feature-focus-constructor-property-promotion/ > > The constructor isn't "supposed" to be empty. It just often is with > promotion, because the constructor wasn't doing anything else besides > shuffling its parameters over to properties, which is now automatic. > > --Larry Garfield > > Sorry for top-posting. Didn't know what it means :), also it was kind of my first reply to mailing list. Yes, I see now. I had forgotten that bit when I replied; apologies. I guess it makes sense now to end the constructor with a semicolon when it holds no body.
