Hi! > I do have a general question about these types of changes: if the > deprecation were to land in 7.1, when would the actual removal take place - > 7.2 or 8.0? Or would that be a voting option?
It would have to be done in 8.0, since removing it would constitute a BC break. It's worth noting that there were better reasons for deprecating PHP 4-style constructors over the simple redundancy argument. Specifically, there was confusion as to when a PHP 4-style constructor would actually be considered a constructor (see the RFC [1] for examples). With the var keyword, there's no ambiguity like this. Whilst the language purist in me would like to remove redundant things like this, I feel that it's a rather unnecessary BC break to introduce. So I'm not entirely decided on this. Thanks, Tom [1]: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_php4_constructors
