title: Php: Parentheses when creating new object?
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3873111/instantiate-a-class-with-or-without-parentheses">Instantiate a class with or without parentheses?</a>  </p>
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  <p>This is a minor quibble, but is there any reason to prefer</p>
  
  <pre><code>$obj = new SomeClass();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>over</p>
  
  <pre><code>$obj = new SomeClass;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I prefer the latter because I like how it looks, and it saves you a couple of characters.  On the downside, it goes against conventions and makes it slightly harder to come back and add an argument later.</p>
  
  <p>Anyone have a compelling argument for either, or is this pure semantics?</p>