On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Dmitry Stogov <dmi...@zend.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Philip Sturgeon <pjsturg...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Dmitry Stogov <dmi...@zend.com> wrote: >> > I think the proposal is a bit incomplete. >> > It's possible to instantiate an anonymous class, but currently it's not >> > possible to do with them anything else (assign to variable, pass to >> > function, etc). Something similar to Closure objects should be >> > introduced. >> > >> > Thanks. Dmitry. >> >> 1. You can absolutely assign the instantiated classes to variables. >> >> Check out this test in the patch: >> >> https://github.com/krakjoe/php-src/compare/anon#diff-25e330fb5a98810de178a5b798102d01R1 >> > > In tests you assign instantiated objects. > > $a = new class {...}; > $b = new class {...}; > > I'm talking about classes as first class objects. > > $c = class {...}; > $a = new $c; > $b = new $c; > > >> >> 2. Why do you say they cannot be passed to a function? I can add a >> test if you can give me an example of what you're suggesting doesn't >> work. >> >> 3. Not sure why we'd need a Closure-alike object. Anonymous classes >> are just a class, and classes have all the types and hinting >> functionality of regular classes. You don't need to implement a class >> to let people know its a class. >> >> Maybe you could expand on that a bit? :) > > > I tried it in the example above. > > Also, classes may be useful without objects at all (just static properties > and methods). > > $c = class {...}; > $c::static_foo(); > > Thanks. Dmitry.
Thank you for the example! Your example explains my question 1, but doesn't seem to explain 2 or 3. I'll play around with static usage and show it off in the tests. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
