Re: 5.4's New De-referencing plus assignment

If that's the case, then why not just add whatever $options is as a parameter to your constructor. I'm not totally against this concept, but this use is moot. On Nov 30, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Ralph Schindler wrote: > Ironically, quite the opposite is something I find useful: > > ($foo = new MyComponent($bar))->configure($options); > > In a single line, instantiate and configure (via an API call) an object. The return of > configure() is not important to me, but the brevity of that workflow, and the result of > "new" is. > > -ralph > > > On 11/30/11 1:13 PM, Nikita Popov wrote: >> To me the main problem here is that $bar = ($foo = new Foo)->bar() >> simply doesn't make much sense. It is equivalent to: >> $foo = new Foo; >> $bar = $foo->bar(); >> Which is much cleaner and easier to understand. >> >> The plain (new Foo)->bar() syntax *is* useful for cases like (new >> ReflectionClass($class))->implementsInterface('Foo'), where you need >> only one single bit of information from a class. >> >> Nikita >> >> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Ralph Schindler >> <ralph@ralphschindler.com> wrote: >>> Nikita, >>> >>> You're completely right about the expanded expressions, but I'm not sure its >>> an edge-case per-se. >>> >>> The problem with the current syntax is that the resultant of the 'new' >>> operation is lost UNLESS your chained method returns $this - which IMO makes >>> it about as 1/2 as useful as it really could be. >>> >>> In the case of "new" though, the resultant is always an object, it seems >>> like it should be permissible to change the parser to allow for variable >>> assignment of the target object. >>> >>> I think for people just trying out this new behavior (by seeing it in the >>> release notes as (new Foo)->bar()), the next logical thing is to try this >>> syntax: >>> >>> ($foo = new Foo)->bar() >>> >>> // OR in bison >>> '(' variable '=' new_expr ')' >>> >>> I did it, and I see other people doing it too. So I guess the question is... >>> "how edge case is this edge case?" :) > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >