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that are not intended to be instantiated from the outside and thus are not
concerned by the `PSR-0`_ and `PSR-4`_ autoload standards;

* Declare the class inheritance and all the implemented interfaces on the same
line as the class name;

* Declare class properties before methods;

* Declare public methods first, then protected ones and finally private ones.
The exceptions to this rule are the class constructor and the ``setUp`` and
``tearDown`` methods of PHPUnit tests, which should always be the first methods
to increase readability;

* Declare all the arguments on the same line as the method/function name, no
matter how many arguments there are;

* Use parentheses when instantiating classes regardless of the number of
arguments the constructor has;

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