Re: [RFC] Object Initializer

The RFC is a beautiful feature suggestion, but something is telling me as beautiful and straightforward the syntax is, what can the use case be? I really love Constructor or Object initialization to be implemented in PHP, but is there something I think you're missing in the RFC? Thanks for the RFC. On Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 4:02 PM Lynn <kjarli@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 4:00 PM Michał Brzuchalski < > michal.brzuchalski@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi internals, > > > > I'd like to open discussion about RFC: Object Initializer. > > > > This proposal reduces boilerplate of object instantiation and properties > > initialization in case of classes without required constructor arguments > as > > a single expression with initializer block. > > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/object-initializer > > > > I appreciate any feedback you all can provide. > > > > Thanks, > > -- > > Michał Brzuchalski > > brzuchal@php.net > > > > > Heya, > > What's the added benefit of this compared to implementing a constructor? > > The part I like is that this can be used to replace stdClass/structured > arrays. Perhaps something like this would nice to have in PHP: > > ``` > $people = []; > > foreach ($peopleFromDatabase as [$id, $username, $name]) { > $people[] = { > Uuid id => $id, > string username => $username, > string name => $name, > }; > // and possible automatic assignment: > $people[] = {Uuid $id, string $username, string $name}; > } > ``` > > Regards, > Lynn van der Berg >