Re: Object instantiation

On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 11:42 -0700, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > 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? Yeah, that makes sense. > 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?