Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:71947 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 80982 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2014 21:27:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Feb 2014 21:27:48 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 198.187.29.233 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 198.187.29.233 imap1.ox.registrar-servers.com Received: from [198.187.29.233] ([198.187.29.233:41626] helo=imap1.ox.registrar-servers.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 15/E8-30967-2D66DE25 for ; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 16:27:47 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oxmail.registrar-servers.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 884322000A7; Sat, 1 Feb 2014 16:27:43 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap1.ox.registrar-servers.com Received: from oxmail.registrar-servers.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap1.ox.registrar-servers.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id c0GeDGdCmzBH; Sat, 1 Feb 2014 16:27:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.0.200] (unknown [176.25.177.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by oxmail.registrar-servers.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9EDF0200099; Sat, 1 Feb 2014 16:27:42 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <52ED66CC.8070304@ajf.me> Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 21:27:40 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sara Golemon , Gordon Oheim CC: PHP internals References: <98.E0.35265.E17FBE25@pb1.pair.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Automatic Property Initialization From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 01/02/14 19:53, Sara Golemon wrote: > Because it's different from already existing syntax (Code exists in > the wild using HHVM's version of the syntax - > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/constructor-promotion ). I'm not sure which > part you're confused about. HHVM might already have it, yes, but PHP should strive for nicer and more obvious syntax choices. The PHP syntax is more obvious in what it does. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/