Re: Constructor object instance dereferentiation

On 2011-05-22, Ferenc Kovacs <info@tyrael.hu> wrote: > --bcaec52be62721150704a3d8f926 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:18 AM, dukeofgaming <dukeofgaming@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was wondering if object dereferentiation after constructor call is > > something that has been discussed already. This is, being able to do > > something like: > > > > new MyClass()-> setSomething(); > > > > Instead of: > > > > $var = new MyClass(); > > $var-> setSomething(); > > it was already discussion, Felipe created an RFC and a patch, the responses > was all positive, so I think if nobody changed their mind, we could move > this from Under Discussion to Accepted/Implemented > as I said before, it would be in good pair with the already implemented > array dereferencing (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/functionarraydereferencing) > > http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=129080024516125&w=2 > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/instance-method-call One thing not on the RFC that I'm curious about: if the class defines __invoke(), would the following work? new MyClass()(); That would be particularly useful for implementing helper systems, which are quite often one-off use cases. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Project Lead | matthew@zend.com Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ PGP key: http://framework.zend.com/zf-matthew-pgp-key.asc