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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Allow specifying keys in list()
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

S.A.N wrote on 12/02/2016 13:37:
> Often all keys are unknown, or a very lot keys, use list(...) - is unreal.
>
> I would like to, instead <?php
>
> foreach($params as $key => $value)
> {
>   $this{$key} = $value
> }
>
> Use the short syntax sugar <?php
>
> $this += $params
>
> ?>
>
> It's really do?
>

If the keys are unknown, then you probably don't want to blindly copy 
them onto object properties; at that point, you might as well just have 
$this->data and leave them as an array. It sounds like what you actually 
want is an object literal syntax - i.e. $params should never have been 
an array in the first place.