From: Operating system: Any (Windows 7) PHP version: Irrelevant Package: SPL related Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description:Shorthand object initializer
Description: ------------ Hi, To often I've been in the situation where I prefer to use an object rather than an associative array to manage data, and in order to keep my code clean, I prefer to do this: return (object)array( 'one'=>1, 'two'=>2, 'three'=>3, 'four'=>4, ); Rather than this: $data = new stdClass(); $data->one = 1; $data->two = 2; $data->three = 3; $data->four = 4; return $data; AFAIK, arrays and objects are similar internally, so why not allow this: return object( 'one'=>1, 'two'=>2, 'three'=>3, 'four'=>4, ); Following the same rule than array to object casting: return object( 'one'=>1, 'two'=>2, 'three'=>3, 'four'=>4, 5 ); "5" would be ignored since its key would be numeric. Regards, David -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53266&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53266&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53266&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53266&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53266&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53266&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53266&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53266&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53266&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53266&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53266&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53266&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53266&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53266&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53266&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53266&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53266&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53266&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53266&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53266&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53266&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53266&r=mysqlcfg
