On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 at 19:46, Mathieu Rochette <math...@rochette.cc> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I’m writing a message here to receive feedback on a two ideas related to
> class constructors before going more in details with an RFC. I hope this is
> appropriate behavior for this list
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> With the Constructor Property Promotion accepted in PHP 8, there’s a lot
> less of boilerplate when writing class constructors. I’m suggesting two
> additional ways of making thing even easier and I hope, readable.
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> First: I’d like to be able to automatically transfer a constructor
> property to its parent constructor. I’m thinking of something like that:
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> ```php
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> class MyCommand extends Command
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> {
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> public function __construct(
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> private Connection $connection,
Why do you use visibility modifier inside here?
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> parent string $name,
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> ) {
C# has something like this ) : base($name)
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> }
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> }
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> ```
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> This would be the equivalent of :
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> ```php
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> class MyCommand extends Command
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> {
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> public function __construct(
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> private Connection $connection,
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> string $name,
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> ) {
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> parent::__construct($name);
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> }
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> }
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> ```
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> The second idea is to make the constructor body optional, the first example
> would now be:
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> ```php
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> class MyCommand extends Command
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> {
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> public function __construct(
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> private Connection $connection,
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> parent string $name,
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> )
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> }
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> ```
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> This would call the parent constructor automatically even if no "parent"
> parameter are present. I could even see this enforced by linter to avoid
> having logic in the constructors.
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> If there is interest I’d like to try writing an rfc and implement it. I
> have not much knowledge of the php-src code but I hope this is a small
> enough change that I’ll be able to tackle. So, at that time if someone is
> interested in mentoring this little project I’d appreciate it :)
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> regards,
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> Mathieu
