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Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 08:51:20 +0200
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To: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PHP7] Remove the function keyword from class methods?
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

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On Oct 4, 2014 4:01 AM, "Andrea Faulds" <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
>
>
> On 3 Oct 2014, at 17:21, Thomas Gossmann <mail@gossimaniac.net> wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if it is possible to deprecate/remove the function
keyword from class methods in php7 or at least make it optional when one of
the visibility keywords is present?
> >
> > I feel like writing a completely unnecessary keyword each time I write
a new method for a class.
> >
> > I guess this was a discussion earlier, though I wasn't able to find
anything about it. Would love to hear, what pdt-internals (re-)think about
that topic.
>
> Me and Pierre have discussed this before, Pierre was in favour of it last
time we talked about it. I=E2=80=99d certainly be in favour of allowing `fu=
nction`
to be omitted when there=E2=80=99s a visibility specifier, like so:
>
>  public foo() {}
>  public static foo() {}
>
> Easy to implement, too. What are the list=E2=80=99s thoughts? I don=E2=80=
=99t think it
really hampers readability much.

Same here. Also while not being against that, I am not a fan or removing
things that make hard to have code for 5.x and 7.x. That will make
migrations harder for little to no gain.

Did we not have a rfc about that already?

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