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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 22:08:14 +0000
To: "php internals" <internals@lists.php.net>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Lazy Objects
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From: larry@garfieldtech.com ("Larry Garfield")

On Wed, Jul 17, 2024, at 6:31 PM, Nicolas Grekas wrote:

> A bit unrelated to the above topic: we've further clarified the RFC by 
> addition restrictions to what can be done with lazy proxies. Namely, 
> when the factory returns an object from a parent class, we describe 
> that adding more on the proxy class would throw, and we also explain 
> why. We also added a restriction to prevent a proxy from having an 
> overridden __clone or __destruct when the factory returns a parent, and 
> explained why again.
>
> This should simplify the overall behavior by preventing edge case that 
> wouldn't have easy answers. If those limitations prove too restrictive 
> in practice (my experience tells me they should be fine), they could be 
> leveraged in the future.
>
> On our side, this should close the last topics we wanted to address 
> before opening the vote.
>
> Please let us know if anyone has other concerns.
>
> Cheers,
> Nicolas

Minor point: Why is the $initializer return type null, instead of void?  I don't see a purpose to allowing an explicit null return and nothing else.

Otherwise, I'm quite looking forward to this.

--Larry Garfield