One place I avoid constructor property promotion

One of my favorite PHP 8 features is constructor property promotion. It cleans up a lot of boilerplate code and makes classes easier to read.

But one place I won't use this handy feature is if I need to possibly override the value inside the constructor. For example, maybe the constructor allows a null value to be passed in, but I might initialize it to a different value.

In those cases, I explicitly declare the class property and set it in the constructor, just like the pre-PHP 8 days. It's a small change, but it seems clearer to me.

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Joel

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