Re: Suggest new operator like with in c#

On 2/4/26 10:03, Larry Garfield wrote:

On Wed, Feb 4, 2026, at 9:50 AM, Ivan Borzenkov wrote:

Hello As i read in https://wiki.php.net/rfc/howto write here “concept”. For fill dto and other same objects need assign to many fields of on object, before properties was be use return $this  in setters and code loos like this $item

      ->setType(Item::TYPE_CLOUT)
      ->setProduct($product)
      ->setPrice($price)

and it was single operator, but it not work with simple property or get-set function need write $item->type = Item::TYPE_CLOUT; $item->product = $product; $item->price = $price; suggest add operator like with in c# which do action and back context back and use for example :> same assign will be look like this $item

      :>type = Item::TYPE_CLOUT
      :>product = $product
      :>price = $price

;

These days, such objects usually have promoted properties in their constructor, and we have named arguments, which allows this already: readonly class Item { public function __construct(

     public int $type,
     public Product $product,
     public float $price,

) {} } $item = new Item( type: Item::TYPE_CLOUT, product: $product, price: $price ); In what way is that insufficient? True it only works on the constructor, but commonly such objects are only assigned to in the constructor.

I imagine this is desirable when one moves away from defining setters and uses property hooks instead. Cheers, Ben