diff --git a/includes/admin.inc b/includes/admin.inc
index 237a05d..6098b23 100644
--- a/includes/admin.inc
+++ b/includes/admin.inc
@@ -994,7 +994,7 @@ function views_ui_edit_form($form, &$form_state, $view, $display_id = NULL) {
   // @todo When more functionality is added to this form, cloning here may be
   //   too soon. But some of what we do with $view later in this function
   //   results in making it unserializable due to PDO limitations.
-  $form_state['view'] = clone($view);
+  $form_state['view'] = clone $view;
 
   $form['#attached']['library'][] = array('system', 'ui.tabs');
   $form['#attached']['library'][] = array('system', 'ui.dialog');
diff --git a/includes/view.inc b/includes/view.inc
index 9dde364..171304f 100644
--- a/includes/view.inc
+++ b/includes/view.inc
@@ -1953,7 +1953,7 @@ class view extends views_db_object {
    *    The cloned view.
    */
   function clone_view() {
-    $clone = version_compare(phpversion(), '5.0') < 0 ? $this : clone($this);
+    $clone = version_compare(phpversion(), '5.0') < 0 ? $this : clone $this;
 
     $keys = array('current_display', 'display_handler', 'build_info', 'built', 'executed', 'attachment_before', 'attachment_after', 'field', 'argument', 'filter', 'sort', 'relationship', 'header', 'footer', 'empty', 'query', 'inited', 'style_plugin', 'plugin_name', 'exposed_data', 'exposed_input', 'exposed_widgets', 'many_to_one_tables', 'feed_icon');
     foreach ($keys as $key) {