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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:32:26 +0200
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To: Xinchen Hui <laruence@php.net>
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	Alain Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk>, PHP Internals <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Remove PHP 4 Constructors
From: narf@devilix.net (Andrey Andreev)

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Xinchen Hui <laruence@php.net> wrote:
>
> leave it there doesn't hurt anybody.  but remove it will. why we need to ?
>

Leaving it does hurt. Most developers with no PHP4 experience don't
know that such a feature exists and spend hours trying to figure out
why a parent class' constructor isn't getting called when it's not
overriden by self::__construct().

PHP can't support everything forever, old and nowadays rarely used
syntax like this one must go away.

Cheers,
Andrey.