[17:33:58] <apergos>	 hey tgr (not urgent) I was looking at the code in your comment at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378401#10307273  and specifically at $status = new PermissionStatus();  and then wondering why in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/bcce4c9b5656b8d2a51cdd1a46497a684ce18f7b/includes/api/ApiQueryUserInfo.php#280  newEmpty() is called (static) instead, I'm probably overlooking something obvious ...
[17:38:10] <Krinkle>	 apergos: PermissionStatus and StatusValue both don't have a (declared) constructor. Comparing `new PermissionStatus` to `PermissionStatus::newEmpty` in Codesearch Everywhere with excludes=test, newEmpty is notably more common.
[17:38:19] <Krinkle>	 https://codesearch.wmcloud.org/search/?q=new+PermissionStatus&files=&excludeFiles=test&repos=
[17:38:29] <Krinkle>	 https://codesearch.wmcloud.org/search/?q=PermissionStatus%3A%3AnewEmpty&files=&excludeFiles=test&repos=
[17:39:05] <apergos>	 ok so that's the statistical data... :-)
[17:39:13] <Krinkle>	 The two are equivalent, but arguably newEmpty is the explicit and supported/documented API.
[17:39:22] <apergos>	 gtk ty
[17:39:46] <Krinkle>	 PermissionStatus does not have @newable, so in theory that's unstable to construct like that. Although given it has no constructor, it works fine today.
[17:40:03] <Krinkle>	 ref https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Stable_interface_policy
[17:42:09] <apergos>	 ok, that answered my question fully, awesome!