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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 14:47:19 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Callable constructors
From: inefedor@gmail.com ("Nikita Nefedov")

On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 14:28:19 +0300, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:

> Hi Rowan,
>
> Rowan Collins wrote:
>> On 25/02/2016 17:40, Andrea Faulds wrote:
>>
>> Snipped for brevity, but I agree with your sentiment here. Making
>> __construct more magic seems like an imperfect solution to this. I'm not
>> sure making a new magic method (new, __new, etc) is much better though,
>> since it would serve such a limited purpose.
>
> Yeah, I do wonder if ::new would really be worth it.
>
>>
>> Then we could add to that a special case for constructors:
>>
>> - Callable::forConstructor(string $class_name)
>>
>
> Oh, that's quite a clean solution, I like that. Heck, no need for  
> Callable, we already have ->getClosure() in Reflection. A modified  
> version of that for constructors could work  
> (ReflectionClass::getConstructorClosure() ?).
>
> Thanks.

Hey Andrea,

This would still not solve Dan's problem though. Which is representing  
`new Class` as a serializeable callable.

I really think ::new() makes the most sense here (and looks quite alright  
unlike `Class::__construct()`).

Although making a special case for `new ...` is pretty simple, I too have  
felt the need for callable constructors plenty of times, that would be  
useful.