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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 14:15:29 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Discussion] Clone with
From: larry@garfieldtech.com ("Larry Garfield")

On Thu, Apr 20, 2023, at 7:22 AM, Aleksander Machniak wrote:
> On 20.04.2023 09:00, Rowan Tommins wrote:
>> Rather than making everything use an array or array-like syntax, I would probably go the other way and scrap the special syntax for dynamic names, making the whole thing look like a function call, with support for array unpacking:
>> 
>> $point = clone $point with (x: $x, y: $y, z: $z);
>> $point = clone $point with (...['x' => $x, 'y' => $y, 'z' => $z]);
>
> or $point = clone($point, x: $x, y: $y, z: $z);
>
> Also, I didn't see it mentioned, but maybe for future scope, these new 
> arguments should be passed to __clone().

They should not.  See https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@crell/object-properties-part-2-examples .  I went through and experimented with different syntaxes, and passing arguments to __clone() was by far the worst option in practice. :-)

--Larry Garfield