Re: Object instantiation

Hi!

$result = new myObject -> myMethod(); Is there a technical reason as to why this can't be done? If not can this be changed?

I think this can not be parsed unambiguously. This could be new (expression with ->) or (new expression)->expression. E.g., what this means: $a = new $foo->bar(); is it a new object whose name given by $foo and then bar() called on it, or is it a new object whose name given by variable $foo->bar with empty ctor? Also, I'm not sure it's a good style - if you are creating object just to drop it immediately in the same expression, maybe it should be static method that creates the object internally? -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com