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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Callable constructors
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 26/02/2016 11:28, Andrea Faulds wrote:
>> 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() ?). 

Reflection always feels to me like "the language doesn't really support 
this, but you can sort of cheat this way", but maybe that's a poor 
prejudice.

Regards,

-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]