Stefan Smiljkovic

Yes, I agree with the idea of property hooks. It feels like a natural way to add more control over input and output without the need for heavy methods. It’s like bringing the convenience of Laravel’s Accessors/Mutators directly into PHP, but with more flexibility. While I understand some of the concerns about the implementation, I think it’s a step in the right direction for cleaner and more efficient code.

It seems like there’s a strong consensus that removing the need for parentheses when instantiating a new class in PHP would make the code cleaner and more intuitive. Many of us find it to be unnecessary noise that adds friction to the coding flow. However, there are some concerns about maintaining existing functionality, like static methods. It would be great to hear more about how this change would impact the current syntax and whether the old behavior will still work.