Re: Raising the precedence of the new operator
> On Apr 5, 2021, at 11:40, André Hänsel <andre@webkr.de> wrote:
>
> I was wondering... PHP is the only language I know of where you have to
> write (new Foo())->bar() instead of
> new Foo()->bar(). This is particularly apparent with the builder pattern:
>
> $developer->drink((new Coffee())->withCream()->withSugar());
> $logger->log((new LogMessage())->withMessage('Coffee was drunk'));
>
> Since new Foo()->bar() cannot (and probably should not) be used to
> "dynamically instantiate a new thing of the class
> name returned by function Foo()", it seems like it would be no problem to
> change the precedence rules so that
> new Foo()->bar() means "instantiate a new Foo and call bar() on it".
>
> It's currently a syntax error, so allowing it would be automatically
> compatible.
>
> Has this ever been discussed before?
Mike Schinkel and I recently discussed this off-list. Mike, now’s your
time to chime in with your ideas on this. :-)
My $0.02 is that this is unnecessary, but I can see how others might
want it to avoid parenthesis soup.
Cheers,
Ben
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