Re: Re: function call chaining

>>  I also think that: >>      $foo = (new bar())->someSetter(); > > someSetter() could return $this, although unlikely. The result of the line > above would be that the bar object is garbage collected after being created > & method someSetter() invoked. To keep it one would have to do: In very rare occassions I don't need to keep the object and I am fine with garbage collection. From garbage collection in PHP I know less, but isnt it so that: function blub() { $foo = new O(); // do long other stuff } gc's $foo only after the method is finished? function blub() { new O()->doSomething(); } would enable to collect this object before method ends. I am not sure if that works with php, but it might. > this could be simplified to: > >    $employees->findEmployee('John Smith')->increaseSalary(1000); > > This is the sort of reason why chaining is useful. It is also, IMHO, quite readable. That is exactly what I would love to see in PHP. Notation is also very similar to java notation. Cheers Christian