On 29-05-2026 5:59 PM, Larry Garfield wrote:
On Mon, May 25, 2026, at 4:07 AM, Gina P. Banyard wrote:
We should instead find a solution to allow FCCs/PFAs to work on
constructors and new rather than adding static factories for every
possible class in existence.
I restarted work on a PR to clean up the semantics of constructors
that, I believe, would make it feasible to allow FCCs/PFAs on new
MyClass. [1]
The original PFA RFC included constructor support, but it was complicated. It
was dropped from the new one that passed in order to simplify things, but I am
open to re-adding it if a good approach is found. So it should certainly be
possible, just a bit hard.
--Larry Garfield
An idea that has always played through my head for this, was to add a
syntax-alternative to "new MyClass()" in the form:
"MyClass::__construct()". (In other words, make the constructor
statically callable).
But seeing it was dropped from the initial RFC, it's probably not be as
trivial as it seems.
It could even be argued that the constructor should have been a static
method in the first place.
I only found out today that you can call "->__construct()" on an
existing object. I don't really see a use case for that, to be honest,
and with readonly properties and property-promotion it's a whole
snake-pit all by itself.
Regards,
Bernard
