Re: RFC: Anonymous Classes

On 23 September 2013 10:44, Sebastian Krebs <krebs.seb@gmail.com> wrote: > 2013/9/23 Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> > > > On 09/22/2013 11:39 PM, Joe Watkins wrote: > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/anonymous_classes > > > > > > I'd like to hear thoughts regarding the addition of anonymous > > > classes, patch included. > > > > I am having a hard time picturing a real-world use-case for this. > > > > The use case is one-time usage of an "implementation", where you currently > probably pass callbacks into a "Callback*"-class like > > $x = new CallbackFoo(function() { > /* do something */ > }); > > vs. > > $x = new Foo () { > public function doSometing() > { > /* do something */ > } > }); > > Imagine you have several abstract methods in one interface/class, which > would need several callbacks passed to the constructor. > Also '$this' is mapped to the right objects. > > Regards, > Sebastian > > It also avoids usage of these classes outside the scope where they are defined... I'm not sure that I like it yet, since the only use cases so far are very weird edge cases in my strange experiments. Surely needs stronger use cases first... Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/