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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 17:01:13 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Object Initializer
From: kjarli@gmail.com (Lynn)

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On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 4:00 PM Micha=C5=82 Brzuchalski <
michal.brzuchalski@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi internals,
>
> I'd like to open discussion about RFC: Object Initializer.
>
> This proposal reduces boilerplate of object instantiation and properties
> initialization in case of classes without required constructor arguments =
as
> a single expression with initializer block.
>
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/object-initializer
>
> I appreciate any feedback you all can provide.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Micha=C5=82 Brzuchalski
> brzuchal@php.net
>
>
Heya,

What's the added benefit of this compared to implementing a constructor?

The part I like is that this can be used to replace stdClass/structured
arrays. Perhaps something like this would nice to have in PHP:

```
$people =3D [];

foreach ($peopleFromDatabase as [$id, $username, $name]) {
    $people[] =3D {
        Uuid id =3D> $id,
        string username =3D> $username,
        string name =3D> $name,
    };
    // and possible automatic assignment:
    $people[] =3D {Uuid $id, string $username, string $name};
}
```

Regards,
Lynn van der Berg

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