> > I am baffled that this (still) works: > __clone was special cased in 5.x, but special case was removed in 7.0 means that previously you couldn't do publicly $obj->__clone(); now you can and, yes, it's as dangerous as it looks however, the special case was removed for a reason that i'm sure is a good one, and i'm certain the same good reason is also valid for __construct
the only reason for prohibiting explicit __construct calls is that it makes > PHP objects mutable then don't call it explicitly, exactly like you wouldn't use reflection to call private methods
