> > It would have to be done in 8.0, since removing it would constitute a BC > break. >
Thanks for clarifying that Tom! Makes sense to me. > It's worth noting that there were better reasons for deprecating PHP > 4-style constructors over the simple redundancy argument. Specifically, > there was confusion as to when a PHP 4-style constructor would actually be > considered a constructor (see the RFC [1] for examples). With the var > keyword, there's no ambiguity like this. > That's a fair point. I only included that example to highlight the trend of using the PHP 5 style features over PHP 4. You're right though, there's no reason "var" might be misconstrued as something else. > Whilst the language purist in me would like to remove redundant things > like this, I feel that it's a rather unnecessary BC break to introduce. So > I'm not entirely decided on this. > I'm not 100% convinced on this either. I just thought the idea had enough merit to warrant a discussion :) Colin
