Re: [RFC] [Discussion] Clone with

On Thu, Apr 20, 2023, at 7:22 AM, Aleksander Machniak wrote: > On 20.04.2023 09:00, Rowan Tommins wrote: >> Rather than making everything use an array or array-like syntax, I would probably go the >> other way and scrap the special syntax for dynamic names, making the whole thing look like a >> function call, with support for array unpacking: >> >> $point = clone $point with (x: $x, y: $y, z: $z); >> $point = clone $point with (...['x' => $x, 'y' => $y, >> 'z' => $z]); > > or $point = clone($point, x: $x, y: $y, z: $z); > > Also, I didn't see it mentioned, but maybe for future scope, these new > arguments should be passed to __clone(). They should not. See https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@crell/object-properties-part-2-examples . I went through and experimented with different syntaxes, and passing arguments to __clone() was by far the worst option in practice. :-) --Larry Garfield