An Open Letter About PHP 7 Constructors
Published on by Eric L. Barnes
Tony Marston writing about the proposed changed to PHP 7 that PHP 4 style constructors should be made invalid:
Millions of existing websites will not be able to upgrade to PHP 7 until their code is rewritten, and I fear this single BC break will make the move from PHP 5 to PHP 7 much slower than the move from PHP 4 to PHP 5.
I’m not sure this would require an actual rewrite and his bias really shows in the letter. However I have to agree that it will slow adoption even more.
Which side of the fence are you on? Implement a BC which might keep people from updating to more secure versions of PHP. Or don’t and have to support the old feature forever?
Eric is the creator of Laravel News and has been covering Laravel since 2012.