Hello Andrea, On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> wrote:
> Hey Levi, > > Upon further thought, I’m not super-enthusiastic about this. As has been > pointed out, it’s a pretty serious BC break, whether code can be > automatically updated or not. PHP 4 constructors may be obsolete, but an > awful lot of code uses them. > > A better solution, IMO, might be simply to add a deprecation notice. This > would make it obvious during development if you’ve accidentally defined a > PHP4 constructor, and would encourage migration away from them, but > wouldn’t prevent existing code from working. > > Thoughts? > I would be against a deprecation notice here. In fact I think it should either be do nothing or remove them entirely. I know this thread has become out of control but as a user of PHP 3, 4 and 5; a framework developer; and a engineering executive I find that the PHP 4 style constructors to be an ignorance that I am forced to currently deal with. The amount of information in this post is vast and I don't feel I need to go into details. However, I support this proposal 100% as do I feel most of the open source community. Items that are still out there relying on PEAR and other packages should remain on PHP 5 or even less. We have better solutions now such as composer which has changed the ecosystems reliance on items such as PEAR. Developers that are relying on PEAR have other issues to date than simply what would happen with PHP 7 as not all PEAR packages work well with PHP 5 at this time especially the latest releases. PEAR is a thing that has come and gone. Legacy code that still remains with PHP 4 style constructors should upgrade to the latest. Language evolve and we need to keep pushing the bar forward. As a personal note, PHP has slowly been moving towards the background for certain applications for JavaScript (nodejs) and I feel for PHP to remain it's competitive market it needs to evolve more as a leading language. PHP was great about this between 3, 4 and 5. 7 must do the same thing otherwise I feel like it will lead to a slow death much like the perl of old. Regards, Mike
