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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] new foo()->bar()
From: mailinglists@bobbyhensley.com (Bob Hensley)

On 11/26/2010 2:36 PM, Felipe Pena wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm here again to presents another proposal, which adds support for
> instantiating a class and calling its methods and accessing its properties
> on same command.
>
> Example:
>
> <?php
>
> class bar {
>    public $x = 'PHP';
> }
>
> class foo extends bar {
>    public function bar() {
>      return $this;
>    }
> }
>
> var_dump(new foo()->bar()->x); // string(3) "PHP"
>
> ?>
>
> Other examples which describes the feature at
> http://wiki.php.net/rfc/instance-method-call
>
> Thoughts?
>

I fully support this patch.  This is something PHP has needed for a long 
time.