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To: "Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@lerdorf.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Dropping requirement for `function` keyword for methods
 in classes/interfaces/etc
From: inefedor@gmail.com ("Nikita Nefedov")

On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:10:22 -0000, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>  
wrote:

> On 02/19/2013 03:07 PM, Nikita Nefedov wrote:
>
>> Are you grepping for all the functions or you are grepping just for some
>> specific function? If so, you are likely already know what visibility
>> this function has, so couldn't you grep for `public %functionName%`
>> instead of `function %functionName%`?
>> At the end, you can always use `grep
>> '(function|public|private|protected) functionName' file`, and if it's
>> long to type, you can make sh script, or even alias.
>
> public is the default visibility so it is often left off, so no, I can't
> grep for that.
>
> -Rasmus

As Sara noted, we shouldn't let users define methods without modifiers at  
all, so at least public/private/protected will have to be there.