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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:39:16 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Evaluation of constructor arguments if there's no constructor
From: jpauli@php.net (Julien Pauli)

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote:
> Julien Pauli wrote (on 14/08/2014):
>>
>> It may be possible to interpret the argument, but I think it will need
>>
>> new OPCodes, like ZEND_NEW_WITH_CTOR and ZEND_NEW_WITHOUT_CTOR , and a
>> compiler patch to support those.
>> This may be thought for PHP7, and I think will benefit from the
>> ast-compiler RFC if its voted.
>
>
> Yeah, to clarify, I was definitely thinking in terms of PHP7, where lots is
> already being done for consistency and parser changes.
>
> It may be naive of me, but would it be possible to simply add an implicit
> constructor with an empty argument list and body to any class which doesn't
> have one?

This would disable the actual executor optimization.
We need to rethink this problem for PHP7's executor.

Julien.Pauli