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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PHP7] Remove the function keyword from class methods?
From: mail@gossimaniac.net (Thomas Gossmann)

Thanks Johannes, I slipped over it but would have never found the 
discussion to it.

I run over it and the summary is: Many people like it and those that 
don't have brought arguments, that are present here again. The 
discussion is almost 4 years old by now, and people are complaining over 
things getting implemented in php back in time, which are now 
implemented and turned out to be ok - I expect the same to happen with 
this idea.
Main contra argument is, people are not able to grep for 'function *' 
anymore, which I guess is a minority of people and they can write 
themselves a shell-script which makes it possible to search for 
functions again, so not a big deal. However, the more important 
statement behind this is, who is the more important crowd of people that 
are targeted with changes like these? Primary or secondary consumers?
... but see my other mail, which conatains answers.

Though, I have one question left regarding the old rfc? Why it has been 
gone inactive and basically slept since then?

Thanks
Thomas Gossmann

Am 04.10.14 um 19:44 schrieb Johannes Schlüter:
> On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 18:21 +0200, Thomas Gossmann wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Go to wiki.php.net/rfc look at the titles containing "function" and you
> will see "Make T_FUNCTION in method declarations optional" which was
> added by me. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/optional-t-function
>
> Since proposing I was convinced this wasn't good. Please bring new
> arguments. Discussion was in this thread
> http://news.php.net/php.internals/50628 (another viewer might be better
> to find the ~64 followups)
>
> johannes
>