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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: shorthand object property setting syntax.
From: davey@php.net (Davey Shafik)


On Mar 27, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Bharat Nagwani wrote:

> I might have missed earlier emails. How about this?
>=20
> $myLongNameObject =3D new myLongNameObject {
>    property1: '11111',
>    property2: '22222',
>    property3: '33333',
>    property4: '44444',
>    property5: '55555',
> };
>=20
> Can we avoid the new as well like in Javascript?
>=20
> $myLongNameObject =3D {
>    property3: 'xyz',
>    property4: 'abc',
>    property5: 5,
>    property6: {
>        a: 1
>    }
> };

Except that "new myLongNameObject" and { } are not the same, your latter =
syntax =97 just as in JavaScript =97 would
yield an anonymous object, essentially the same as "new stdClass" :)

You could just as easily do:

$myLongNameObject =3D (object) array (
	'property3' =3D> 'xyz',
	'property4' =3D> 'abc',
	'property5' =3D> (object) array (
		'a' =3D> 1
	)
);=