Re: RFC: Anonymous Classes

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Joe Watkins <krakjoe@php.net> wrote: > Ok, I included just about all the information on use cases that is obvious > or has been discussed, so I think we got use cases covered now, right ?? > > See a good one yet ?? > > > Cheers > Joe Wondering about scoping. Yes, anonymous classes can have their own constructor, but if we're adding syntactic sugar why not make it possible to use from the scope they're created in? See this example adapted from a Stack Overflow question about how it works in Java [1]: (not sure how you the "use" syntax should look like) public function doStuff($userId) { $this->doOtherStuff($userId, new class implements SomeInterface { public function onSuccess() { echo $userId; } }); } vs public function doStuff($userId) { $this->doOtherStuff($userId, new class implements SomeInterface { private $userId; public function __construct($userId) { $this->userId = $userId; } public function onSuccess() { echo $this->userId; } }); } [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3251018/java-anonymous-inner-class-using-a-local-variable Cheers, Alexander