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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Pre-RFC Discussion: Support for String Literals as
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From: sandfox@sandfox.me (Anton Smirnov)



On 02/09/2024 19:42, Christoph M. Becker wrote:
> On 02.09.2024 at 16:51, Mike Schinkel wrote:
> 
>> Generally I am one who welcomes new feature ideas, but I fear that string literals as object properties would break a valuable assumption that all properties must be a valid identifier. Without that assumption I fear many things that would become more complex.
> 
> Is that so?  See <https://3v4l.org/bZTFi>.

And it works with methods too, you just can't define them but can catch 
with __call:

<?php

class AAA {
     public function __call(string $name, array $arguments)
     {
         var_dump($name);
     }
}

[new AAA, '123AnyChars%%!@#']();