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Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 11:51:44 +0200
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Constructor Property Promotion
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:30 PM Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi internals,
>
> I would like to submit the following RFC for your consideration:
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/constructor_promotion
>
> This is based on one off the suggestions made in
> https://externals.io/message/109220, and some existing discussion on the
> topic can be found in that thread.
>
> The primary motivation for this feature is to close the currently rather
> wide gap between the use of ad-hoc array structures, and the use of
> well-defined and type-safe value objects. The latter is what we want people
> to use, but the former is, unfortunately, what is *easy* to use.
>
> Regards,
> Nikita
>

I know I said it a few times already, but ... I plan to start voting on
this soon. There has been some additional discussion recently on
alternative syntax/approaches, such as Mike's parameter blocks, and Larry's
"promoted" keyword. I wasn't really convinced by either of those, so I plan
to go forward with the proposal as is.

Nikita

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