> On Apr 5, 2021, at 12:12, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecke...@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> On 05.04.2021 at 18:40, André Hänsel wrote:
> 
>> I was wondering... PHP is the only language I know of where you have to
>> write `(new Foo())->bar()` instead of
>> `new Foo()->bar()`. This is particularly apparent with the builder pattern:
>> 
>> $developer->drink((new Coffee())->withCream()->withSugar());
>> $logger->log((new LogMessage())->withMessage('Coffee was drunk'));
>> 
>> Since `new Foo()->bar()` cannot (and probably should not) be used to
>> "dynamically instantiate a new thing of the class
>> name returned by function Foo()", it seems like it would be no problem to
>> change the precedence rules so that
>> `new Foo()->bar()` means "instantiate a new Foo and call bar() on it".
>> 
>> It's currently a syntax error, so allowing it would be automatically
>> compatible.
>> 
>> Has this ever been discussed before?
> 
> See <https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70549>.


The last comment on that issue reads:

> @Nikic
> Good news. I'll prepare RFC for 7.1.

Was there an RFC for it? I can’t find one.

Cheers,
Ben

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