Re: [PHP-DEV] Is there any interest for object constructor shorthand*just for stdClass*

2020-10-22 Thread Hans Henrik Bergan
@Rowan Tommins not saying this is a good idea or anything, but i just want to point out that there's another way to do it in 7.4 $object = new class($foo, $foo * 2, $nextBaz) { public int $foo; public int $bar; public int $baz; public function __construct($foo, $bar, $baz) {

Re: [PHP-DEV] Is there any interest for object constructor shorthand*just for stdClass*

2020-10-22 Thread Björn Larsson
Den 2020-10-21 kl. 22:45, skrev Rowan Tommins: On 21/10/2020 10:47, Pierre wrote: I'd recommend that if your data is arbitrary, you can use arrays, if you it's not, you probably always should write typed value objects This is pretty much what I was going to say. If you have truly dynamic ke

Re: [PHP-DEV] Is there any interest for object constructor shorthand *just for stdClass*

2020-10-21 Thread Rowan Tommins
On 21/10/2020 10:47, Pierre wrote: I'd recommend that if your data is arbitrary, you can use arrays, if you it's not, you probably always should write typed value objects This is pretty much what I was going to say. If you have truly dynamic keys, then having the full set of array functions a

Re: [PHP-DEV] Is there any interest for object constructor shorthand *just for stdClass*

2020-10-21 Thread Pierre
Le 21/10/2020 à 11:38, Björn Larsson a écrit : > > Well, but for us with a legacy code base where this is heavily used > it would definitely be an improvement! It would enable a so called > stepwise refinement :-) > > One typical usecase we have is populating an object with the result > from a DB q

Re: [PHP-DEV] Is there any interest for object constructor shorthand *just for stdClass*

2020-10-21 Thread Björn Larsson
Den 2020-10-21 kl. 01:30, skrev Larry Garfield: On Tue, Oct 20, 2020, at 5:53 PM, tyson andre wrote: Hi internals, e.g. `$x = object{key: object{'escaped-literal': $v2 }};` (equivalent to `$x = (object)['key' => (object)['escaped-literal' => $v2]];`) For example, in JS, non-string key literals

Re: [PHP-DEV] Is there any interest for object constructor shorthand *just for stdClass*

2020-10-20 Thread Larry Garfield
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020, at 5:53 PM, tyson andre wrote: > Hi internals, > > e.g. `$x = object{key: object{'escaped-literal': $v2 }};` > (equivalent to `$x = (object)['key' => (object)['escaped-literal' => $v2]];`) > > For example, in JS, non-string key literals are surrounded in `[]` to > unambiguo

[PHP-DEV] Is there any interest for object constructor shorthand *just for stdClass*

2020-10-20 Thread tyson andre
Hi internals, e.g. `$x = object{key: object{'escaped-literal': $v2 }};` (equivalent to `$x = (object)['key' => (object)['escaped-literal' => $v2]];`) For example, in JS, non-string key literals are surrounded in `[]` to unambiguously reference them. Here, that could be `object{[$key]: $value, [M