PHP RFC: Records - questions

Hi,

I have a question in regards to the proposed PHP RFC: Records. For following snippet:

record Result(bool $success, array $error, array $data);
$result = &Result(false, [], []);
$result->with(success: true)->with(error: $error + ['Some error'])->with(data: $data + ['user_id' => 777]));

Is this possible to append/merge to existing array properties? Like I am doing with error.

Regards
Volodymyr Volynets

Hello Volodymyr,

Assuming you mean $data and $error to be the record's $data and $error arrays respectively? In that case, it would have to be something like this:

$result = $result->with(
success: true,
error: $result->error + ['some error'],
data: $result->data + ['user_id' => 777],
);

This is akin to writing it with an array:

$result = ['success' => false, 'error' => [], 'data' => []];
$result = [
...$result,
'success' => true,
'error' => $result['error'] + ['some error'],
'data' => $result['data'] + ['user_id' => 777],
];

— Rob