> On 18 Nov 2014, at 21:51, Rowan Collins <rowan.coll...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Personally, I would much prefer the backwards compatibility break to happen.
> It is frankly quite bizarre, and not at all useful, that the following two
> pieces of code behave differently:
>
> class Foo {}
> new Foo( print('hello') );
> // silent
>
> vs
>
> class Foo { function __construct() {} }
> new Foo( print('hello') );
> // says "hello"
>
> (Incidentally, HHVM doesn't have this "optimisation", and says "hello" in
> both cases: http://3v4l.org/ZDXs1)
>
> If I came upon this without knowing more, I would assume it was a bug in PHP,
> and any code relying on it was in need of fixing ASAP.
In fact, it *is* a bug: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67829
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