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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2021 12:19:35 -0500
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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 12:12, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> =
wrote:
>=20
> On 05.04.2021 at 18:40, Andr=C3=A9 H=C3=A4nsel 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?
>=20
> See <https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=3D70549>.


The last comment on that issue reads:

> @Nikic
> Good news. I'll prepare RFC for 7.1.

Was there an RFC for it? I can=E2=80=99t find one.

Cheers,
Ben


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