Req #81231 [Sus->Opn]: improve or add short method for creating objects, it was done with arrays.

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=81231&edit=1 ID: 81231 User updated by: icarosnet at gmail dot com Reported by: icarosnet at gmail dot com Summary: improve or add short method for creating objects, it was done with arrays. -Status: Suspended +Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request -Package: Class/Object related +Package: Unknown/Other Function Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04 PHP Version: 8.1.0alpha2 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: why an object must be an instance of a class; and cannot be a native type; being able to create an object as an array is created can help just as the method of creating short arrays has helped. the question should not be why; the question should be why not implement something like that? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2021-07-07 20:01:00] requinix@php.net Proposed and discussed a few times. But reconsider whether you really need so many stdClass objects or whether some concrete types would be better. Note that [] isn't a really shorthand: both array syntaxes look and work the same way, except one starts with "[" and ends with "]" while the other starts with "array(" and ends with ")". Meanwhile objects have no corresponding syntax at all - long or short. Perhaps that's because stdClass is a second-class citizen (pun intended) after arrays and "real" classes. And while they're commonly used for comparisons, objects in Javascript are more closely related to PHP's associative arrays; PHP's objects are closer to traditional OOP classes, plus some added dynamic features. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2021-07-07 19:29:40] nospam at nospam dot com But...why? An object is an instance of a class. There are anonymous functions for closures. A request like this should be discussed on internals, and has been discussed on internals in the past: https://externals.io/message/106947 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2021-07-07 19:23:34] fffr dot fffg at hf dot dd what problem do you want to solve? you don't need the () at all unless you want to provide parameters for a constructor - so you save exactly one char for what benefit? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2021-07-07 19:13:29] icarosnet at gmail dot com Description: ------------ improve or add short method for creating objects, it was done with arrays. Test script: --------------- The only two ways to create an object in PHP are: $obj = new stdclass (); $obj = (object) Array(); // the same as $ obj = (object)[]; or am I wrong? why objects don't have a short initialization method: $obj = Object(); // avoiding the use of new stdclass (); $obj = {}; similar to how an array is created $arr = Array(); $arr = []; Actual result: -------------- Error ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=81231&edit=1