Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [ZEND-ENGINE-CVS] cvs: ZendEngine2 / zend_API.c zend_compile.c /tests ns_063.phpt

[email protected] (Lukas Kahwe Smith)
Newsgroups php.internals,php.zend-engine.cvs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 05.05.2008, at 20:51, Pierre Joye wrote:

> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Dmitry Stogov <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It's just simple to make constructors work in the same way in  
>> namespaces and
>> out of them. It would be difficult to explain why the first script  
>> prints
>> "ok" and the second doesn't.
>
> It is easy to explain: "You have to use the __construct form for any
> class used in Namespace".
>
> We can then even drop the old form in php 6.x. Many changes have no
> gain but make the language clearer or cleaner. It is not an objective
> change but it does help to cleanup the language.
>
> I will not die if we still support old things for the rest of the
> php's life but...

Also keep in mind, while BC is nice and dandy, there are still new  
people learning PHP, if we never "cleanup" anything, then we will  
force all beginners to be exposed to all these variations  
indefinitely. This kind of stuff is quite easy to fix. Throw a  
deprecated warning in 5.3 and remove in PHP 6.x.

regards,
Lukas
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