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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2021 11:47:26 -0500
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Message-ID: <DC22B556-A023-4F10-BE20-79857C93A58A@benramsey.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Raising the precedence of the new operator
From: ben@benramsey.com (Ben Ramsey)

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> On Apr 5, 2021, at 11:40, Andr=C3=A9 H=C3=A4nsel <andre@webkr.de> =
wrote:
>=20
> I was wondering... PHP is the only language I know of where you have =
to
> write `(new Foo())->bar()` instead of
> `new Foo()->bar()`. This is particularly apparent with the builder =
pattern:
>=20
> $developer->drink((new Coffee())->withCream()->withSugar());
> $logger->log((new LogMessage())->withMessage('Coffee was drunk'));
>=20
> Since `new Foo()->bar()` cannot (and probably should not) be used to
> "dynamically instantiate a new thing of the class
> name returned by function Foo()", it seems like it would be no problem =
to
> change the precedence rules so that
> `new Foo()->bar()` means "instantiate a new Foo and call bar() on it".
>=20
> It's currently a syntax error, so allowing it would be automatically
> compatible.
>=20
> Has this ever been discussed before?


Mike Schinkel and I recently discussed this off-list. Mike, now=E2=80=99s =
your
time to chime in with your ideas on this. :-)

My $0.02 is that this is unnecessary, but I can see how others might
want it to avoid parenthesis soup.

Cheers,
Ben

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