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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 12:33:22 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Null-safe property access in interpolated strings
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 8:34 PM Jordi Boggiano <j.boggiano@seld.be> wrote:

> On 09/08/2020 00:17, Sara Golemon wrote:
> > Do we expect this to work?
> >
> > $foo = new stdClass;
> > $foo->bar = "Hello";
> > echo "$foo?->bar world\n";
> >
> > Because at the moment it doesn't: https://3v4l.org/nLv3l
> >
> > -Sara
>
> Can't say I'm big on interpolation but I'd definitely expect this to
> work because why not?
>
> I think if it can be reasonably fixed it probably would make sense for
> consistency and WTF-avoidance if anything.
>
> Best,
> Jordi
>

Agree. I don't think the question of whether it is useful should come into
this, it's a matter of language consistency. There could be some leeway
here if we say that we have plans to deprecate the "$x->y" syntax in the
future anyway and don't want to extend it anymore -- but I don't believe we
have such plans at the present time.

Nikita

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