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Subject: Proposal: shorthand object property setting syntax.
From: toorion@gmail.com (Toorion)

Very often (for example when work with dom or UI object) setting plenty 
of object properties is require. At this time we has not a lot options.
Standard way looks very dirty and be reason of more copy-paste-work.

Reproduce code:
---------------
$myLongNameObject = new MyLongNameObject();
$myLongNameObject->property1 = '11111';
$myLongNameObject->property2 = '22222';
$myLongNameObject->property3 = '33333';
$myLongNameObject->property4 = '44444';
$myLongNameObject->property5 = '55555';

Or worse case:
$myLongNameObject = new MyLongNameObject(); // Proxy pattern
$myLongNameObject->property1 = '11111';
$myLongNameObject->property2 = '22222';
$myLongNameObject->property3 = '33333';
$myLongNameObject->insideObject = new InsideObject();
$myLongNameObject->insideObject->propertyOne   = '1111';
$myLongNameObject->insideObject->propertyTwo   = '2222';
$myLongNameObject->insideObject->propertyThree = '3334';
$myLongNameObject->insideObject->propertyFour  = '4444';

So, apparently, that is not good. We can use special constructor code 
and array like parameter of constructor like this:
$MyLongNameObject = new MyLongNameObject( array(
     'property1' = '1111',
     'property2' = '2222',
     .....
));
But it's look like crutch and can't extended with IDE. Match better if 
we can set multiple properties in one time something like this:

$MyLongNameObject = new MyLongNameObject() {
     $property1 = '1111';
     $property2 = '2222';
     $property3 = '4444';
     $property4 = '5555';
}

And (for multiple setting properties for exists object):

$MyLongNameObject = new MyLongNameObject();
$MyLongNameObject->{
     $propertyOne   = '1111';
     $propertyTwo   = '2222';
     $propertyThree = '3333';
     $propertyFour  = '4444';
}

So, this way can help in many cases with initialization long OOP 
structures and economy lot of time for programming, debugging and 
refactoring code.