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Subject: [PHP-DEV] Suggest new operator like with in c#
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From: ivan.borzenkov@gmail.com (Ivan Borzenkov)

Hello

As i read in https://wiki.php.net/rfc/howto write here “concept”.

For fill dto and other same objects need assign to many fields of on 
object, before properties was be use return $this  in setters and code 
loos like this

$item
     ->setType(Item::TYPE_CLOUT)
     ->setProduct($product)
     ->setPrice($price)

and it was single operator, but it not work with simple property or 
get-set function need write

$item->type = Item::TYPE_CLOUT;
$item->product = $product;
$item->price = $price;

suggest add operator like with in c# which do action and back context 
back and use for example :>
same assign will be look like this

$item
     :>type = Item::TYPE_CLOUT
     :>product = $product
     :>price = $price
;