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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [IDEA for RFC] let the "new" operator fail when the
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From: tim@bastelstu.be (=?UTF-8?Q?Tim_D=C3=BCsterhus?=)

Hi

On 2/5/26 18:40, Mirco Babin wrote:
>> So, if you call `$object->__construct()`, there's no error, and you can
>> get the return value, but if you do `new Foo()`, you'd get an error?
> 
> That is correct.

As mentioned in my other email, I believe it should just be an error 
either way.

In fact I would expect the result to be quite similar to how it already 
is a compile-time (!) error to return something from a void function:

     function foo(): void {
         return 1;
     }
     // Fatal error: A void function must not return a value

Best regards
Tim Düsterhus