Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:47656 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 17075 invoked from network); 27 Mar 2010 16:23:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Mar 2010 16:23:27 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=martin@divbyzero.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=martin@divbyzero.net; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain divbyzero.net from 87.230.111.147 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: martin@divbyzero.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 87.230.111.147 mx.bauer-kirch.de Linux 2.6 Received: from [87.230.111.147] ([87.230.111.147:38265] helo=mx.bauer-kirch.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 90/34-20638-CF03EAB4 for ; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:23:26 -0500 Received: by mx.bauer-kirch.de with ESMTP id 1NvYnB-00076w-LR; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:23:22 +0100 Message-ID: <4BAE30F7.5090004@divbyzero.net> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:23:19 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Toorion CC: internals@lists.php.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: shorthand object property setting syntax. From: martin@divbyzero.net (Martin Jansen) On 27.03.10 17:02, Toorion wrote: > $myLongNameObject = new MyLongNameObject(); > $myLongNameObject->property1 = '11111'; > $myLongNameObject->property2 = '22222'; > $myLongNameObject->property3 = '33333'; > $myLongNameObject->property4 = '44444'; > $myLongNameObject->property5 = '55555'; [...] > $MyLongNameObject = new MyLongNameObject() { > $property1 = '1111'; > $property2 = '2222'; > $property3 = '4444'; > $property4 = '5555'; > } What exactly do you gain with the new syntax? You don't save LOC with it (actually it requires one more line) and you still have to type all the property names. Using an editor with code completion one can produce the code in the current syntax pretty quickly after all. - Martin