Re: Methods which auto-return the class instance
| From: | Rowan Tommins | Date: | Sat, 24 Dec 2022 10:52:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Methods which auto-return the class instance | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On 23 December 2022 13:29:07 GMT, Claude Pache <claude.pache@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes but declaring
self is more strict than
>> object.
>> And talking about the word itself... Declaring to return (your-)PfBÏ
>> (8Rself but you could return someone-else of the same type as you.
>> But it is ok, it refers to the class name not the instance. just semantic.
>>
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>It is not about being less or more restricted, it is about being plainly ambiguous.
Another big advantage of "return $this" is that it can't affect any existing code.
Granted, a function marked :self or :static which currently fails to return would be a runtime
error, but changing that error into an implicit return $this could be very dangerous.
Regards,
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Rowan Tommins
[IMSoP]