New to PHP 5.4: Traits

Re:New to PHP 5.4: Traits by RossM on Saturday November 20, 2010 @09:44AM (#1924568)

A few of PHP's most (publicly) hated components are being removed in 5.4 (which may become 6, from what I can tell this article is lying when it says 5.4 is "around the corner") - register_globals, magic_quotes is being discussed. Even the old asp_tags setting is going. However these have no relevance to me as I haven't used them in years.

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Re:New to PHP 5.4: Traits by robryan on Saturday November 20, 2010 @10:31AM (#1924621)

If they are going that far, it would probably be better to get rid of more in one go, rather than giving people legacy code headaches with each release.

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Re:New to PHP 5.4: Traits by philfreo on Saturday November 20, 2010 @12:37PM (#1924857)

What else do you think they should remove?

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Re:New to PHP 5.4: Traits by robryan on Saturday November 20, 2010 @11:19PM (#1926295)

I guess I would focus on cleanup, method names and parameter orders. I don't know enough about the internals to know if also allowing say $var = $val->substring(0, 2); could be an alias to how values are currently passed into functions.

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