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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:24:18 -0000
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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 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:02:36 -0000, Sanford Whiteman  
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> While I'm thinking about this (though I should leave it alone): who's
> to say that PHP won't some day get inner classes? By deciding the
> "default" inner member of a class will be a function, you're choosing
> the one that has a global/procedural equivalent where the short syntax
> won't work, instead of leaving the concept unused for the possible
> future when:
>
> class myClass {
>         mySomething { // is equivalent to class mySomething {
> (Yes, you could say mySomething(...) { } is a public function and
> mySomething { } is an innner class, but you get the idea.)
>
> -- S.
>
>

Classes always should be declared with class keyword, because there could  
be ambiguity whether it's class, interface or trait.
Also, I will say it again: as Sara noted, we *really* shouldn't let users  
define methods without any modifiers, like this: class Foo { asd() { echo  
"this is parse error"; } }