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To: Gustavo Lopes <glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] new foo()->bar()
From: peter.e.lind@gmail.com (Peter Lind)

On Friday, November 26, 2010, Gustavo Lopes <glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:25:32 -0000, Peter Lind <peter.e.lind@gmail.com> w=
rote:
>
>
> It seems fairly handy and I've been in situations where I wanted to do
> something like that - in fact, I use factories to achieve something
> similar.
> =C2=A0However, the more I use it, the more it feels like introducing code
> smells into my code. You're essentially instantiating an object only
> to immediately throw it away.
>
>
> Not necessarily; you could be calling the method for the collateral effec=
ts and that method return the object itself. This is not that uncommon.
>

And I can do that today with a factory pattern, if I want to.
Anyway, I don't want to argue against the feature, as it will just
introduce a slightly shorter version of something we can already do.

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