On Friday, November 26, 2010, Gustavo Lopes <glo...@nebm.ist.utl.pt> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:25:32 -0000, Peter Lind <peter.e.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > It seems fairly handy and I've been in situations where I wanted to do > something like that - in fact, I use factories to achieve something > similar. > However, the more I use it, the more it feels like introducing code > smells into my code. You're essentially instantiating an object only > to immediately throw it away. > > > Not necessarily; you could be calling the method for the collateral effects > and that method return the object itself. This is not that uncommon. >
And I can do that today with a factory pattern, if I want to. Anyway, I don't want to argue against the feature, as it will just introduce a slightly shorter version of something we can already do. -- <hype> WWW: plphp.dk / plind.dk LinkedIn: plind BeWelcome/Couchsurfing: Fake51 Twitter: kafe15 </hype> -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
