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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 09:51:30 +0200
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To: Gauthier Delamarre <gdelamarre@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] clone and new language construct consistency
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Gauthier Delamarre <gdelamarre@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I once suggested to some core developers to offer =C2=AB clone =C2=BB the=
 same
> syntax as =C2=AB new =C2=BB has since 5.4.
>
> The idea being to be able to write this kind of code:
>
> $foo =3D new Foo;
> $bar =3D (clone $foo)->someMethod();
>
> It seemed that this would not be that difficult to implement, and I was
> told that a RFC will be created for that purpose.
>
> As I can=E2=80=99t find any RFC for that, I was wondering whether I shoul=
d create
> one myself or if I just didn=E2=80=99t find it :)
>

Support for this was part of the UVS RFC (
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/uniform_variable_syntax), so this will work in PHP
7 :)

Nikita

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