Re: [RFC] Anonymous Classes

On 02/24/2015 04:31 PM, Philip Sturgeon wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Florian Anderiasch <ml@anderiasch.de> wrote: >> On 02/24/2015 03:29 PM, Dennis Birkholz wrote: >>> Am 24.02.2015 um 14:52 schrieb Philip Sturgeon: >>>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/anonymous_classes >>> >>> I like the idea of having anonymous classes, it is very helpful during >>> development to just try something out without having the burden of >>> creating a new file and a complete class including namespace and use >>> declarations, etc. >> >> I don't buy this argument. If your class loader or PSR prevents you from >> temporarily adding a 2nd bogus class to the same file (not talking about >> best practices here, obviously) then there's the culprit and it's >> nothing the language needs to fix. >> > > Your reply seems to assume that avoiding rules in a PSR is the only > benefit of the RFC, which is weird when there is a whole RFC full of > benefits of this RFC. My reply was simply re: the quoted paragraph in the mail I directly replied to, not yours. I simply think "trying something out" is not a valid use case of anonymous classes. I can generally like the RFC and still refute arguments in favor of it, right? :) ~Florian