Re: [RFC] Lazy Objects

On Tuesday, 4 June 2024 at 13:28, Nicolas Grekas <nicolas.grekas+php@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > Arnaud and I are pleased to share with you the RFC we've been shaping for over a year to > add native support for lazy objects to PHP. > > Please find all the details here: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/lazy-objects > > We look forward to your thoughts and feedback. > > Cheers, > Nicolas and Arnaud Hello, I don't have any strong opinions about the feature in general, mainly because I don't understand the problem space. However, I have some remarks. The fact that an initialize() method has a $skipInitializer parameter doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Because at a glance, I don't see how passing true to it, and not calling the method is different? This should probably be split into two distinct methods. Does get_mangled_object_vars() trigger initialization or not? This should behave like an (array) cast (and should be favoured instead of an array cast as it was introduced for that purpose). How does a lazy object look like when it has been dumped? > The initializer must return null or no value *Technically* all functions in PHP return a value, which by default is null, so this is somewhat redundant. Also, would this throw a TypeError if a value other than null is returned? Best regards, Gina P. Banyard