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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 16:50:33 +0200
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To: Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Allowing `(object)['key' => 'value']` in initializers?
From: kjarli@gmail.com (Lynn)

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On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 3:15 PM Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote:

> I think for consistency's sake, we'd want to provide a base constructor to
> stdClass to take an associative array that maps into dynamic properties,
> e.g.
>
> class stdClass {
>   public function __construct(array $props) {
>     foreach ($prop as $name => $val) {
>       $this->$name = $val;
>     }
>   }
> }
>
> Then you could:
> php>  static $x3 = new stdClass(['key' => 'value']);
>

If the structure of `$something = {};` would ever be allowed in PHP, the
following could be done instead: `$something = { ...$array };`. This will
reduce the dependency on the stdClass.

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