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Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 22:31:42 +0430
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To: Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][Draft] Body-less __construct
From: hossein.baghayi@gmail.com (Hossein Baghayi)

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On Mon, 10 May 2021 at 21:59, Larry Garfield <larry@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.

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