Re: [RFC] Anonymous Classes

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Philip Sturgeon <pjsturgeon@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote: > > I think the proposal is a bit incomplete. > > It's possible to instantiate an anonymous class, but currently it's not > > possible to do with them anything else (assign to variable, pass to > > function, etc). Something similar to Closure objects should be > introduced. > > > > Thanks. Dmitry. > > 1. You can absolutely assign the instantiated classes to variables. > > Check out this test in the patch: > > > https://github.com/krakjoe/php-src/compare/anon#diff-25e330fb5a98810de178a5b798102d01R1 > > In tests you assign instantiated objects. $a = new class {...}; $b = new class {...}; I'm talking about classes as first class objects. $c = class {...}; $a = new $c; $b = new $c; > 2. Why do you say they cannot be passed to a function? I can add a > test if you can give me an example of what you're suggesting doesn't > work. > > 3. Not sure why we'd need a Closure-alike object. Anonymous classes > are just a class, and classes have all the types and hinting > functionality of regular classes. You don't need to implement a class > to let people know its a class. > > Maybe you could expand on that a bit? :) > I tried it in the example above. Also, classes may be useful without objects at all (just static properties and methods). $c = class {...}; $c::static_foo(); Thanks. Dmitry.