# RFC: Making T_FUNCTION optional in method declarations

- Thread: https://externals.io/message/50653
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- Started by james.butler@edigitalresearch.com on 2010-11-28T14:29:08+00:00
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## #50653 — james.butler@edigitalresearch.com — 2010-11-28T14:29:08+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/50653#50653

Is this going to make it harder for newbies to pick up OOP from a code readability point of view when they look at other people's and framework's code? Also my IDE autocompletes it for me (maybe I'm being lazy here) so I don't see the overhead as being too onerous ( my personal view though)

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> Hi Again:
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> It also will trip up the multitude of PHP IDE's and editors.  Plus it 
> reduces code portability.  All for saving us making a typo and having to 
> write "function"?
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