Re: Re: function call chaining

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com> wrote: > The second was next on my list, while the first seems to me kind of exotic - > why create object only to call one method and immediately drop it? Why this > method is not static then? Why would this imply "dropping" the object? This: $foo = (new bar())->someSetter(); Looks a lot better than this $foo = new bar(); $foo->someSetter(); It's more obvious when you have to store your objects somewhere: $foo->bar[$somevar] = (new bar())->someSetter(); Any object that returns $this a lot makes for a valid use case and right now, we're forced to use a factory method hack, which doesn't always work, especially in the cases where you have a dynamically named class (and you can depend on inheritence to guarantee your method, but not the existence of a static factory method). What arguments are there against this? Why shouldn't it be allowed?