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Reply-To: Levi Morrison <levi.morrison@datadoghq.com>
Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 14:57:42 -0600
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To: Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>
Cc: Daniil Gentili <daniil@daniil.it>, internals@lists.php.net
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Final anonymous classes
From: internals@lists.php.net ("Levi Morrison via internals")

I am not sure about making them final by default. I think it's a more
consistent language design to allow `new final class()` as you
originally proposed. Although I don't know why anyone would want to
extend anonymous classes, we can see that people do, in fact, do it. I
don't see why we couldn't allow `new class() extends $someClass` in
the future to specifically allow them to do this. I mean, I'm not
going to lobby for it, I'm just pointing out that is more aligned and
consistent with other parts of the language, than to simply make it
final by default.

Cheers.