Re: [RFC] Constructor Property Promotion

On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 1:35 AM Markus Fischer <markus@fischer.name> wrote: > Hi, > On 2020-03-26 14:30, Nikita Popov wrote: > > I would like to submit the following RFC for your consideration: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/constructor_promotion > > > > This is based on one off the suggestions made in > > https://externals.io/message/109220, and some existing > > discussion on the > > topic can be found in that thread. > > > > The primary motivation for this feature is to close the currently rather > > wide gap between the use of ad-hoc array structures, and the use of > > well-defined and type-safe value objects. The latter is what we want > people > > to use, but the former is, unfortunately, what is *easy* to use. > > The amount of boilerplate this would cut down for e.g. projects using DI > and DTOs is unfathomable. > > How does this work together with reflection? Will reflection see the > properties _and_ the extended constructor definitions? > Reflection will see the state after desugaring. That is, it just sees normal properties and normal constructor args. I've made this more explicit in the RFC now: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/constructor_promotion#reflection Nikita