On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Paul M. Jones wrote:
>
> > On Mar 12, 2016, at 11:27, Sara Golemon wrote:
> >
> >> HHVM does not implement "new" in this way, they always evaluate the
> arguments.
> >>
> > Which, if it helps, means that we already know a lot of frameworks
> > /don't/ break as a
> On Mar 12, 2016, at 11:27, Sara Golemon wrote:
>
>> HHVM does not implement "new" in this way, they always evaluate the
>> arguments.
>>
> Which, if it helps, means that we already know a lot of frameworks
> /don't/ break as a result of fixing this behavior.
>
>> As this is technically a BC
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Nikita Popov wrote:
> class Foo {}
> new Foo(print 'xyz');
>
> will not print "xyz", because the arguments to "new" are not evaluated if
> the class has no constructor. Conversely
>
I recall someone once dubbing this "The Rasmus Optimization". I don't
know
