I think the proposal is a bit incomplete. It's possible to instantiate an anonymous class, but currently it's not possible to do with them anything else (assign to variable, pass to function, etc). Something similar to Closure objects should be introduced.
Thanks. Dmitry. On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Philip Sturgeon <pjsturg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good day! > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/anonymous_classes > > There's a little RFC + patch that Joe Watkins put together, and as > before with the ArrayOf RFC, I'll be helping out. > > So, lets get this discussion rolling. > > It was declined for PHP 5 some time ago, and has returned now to try for > PHP 7. > > The usage of anonymous classes to some will be instantly offensive, > but really it comes down to the use case. The usage of anonymous > functions compared to declared functions is pretty much the exact same > thing as anonymous classes. > > Other than examples on the RFC, Fractal would certainly be happy to > have them: http://fractal.thephpleague.com/transformers/ > > Defining a class properly is certainly still going to be the majority > of uses of classes in PHP. That helps with the Optimizer, and helps > code reuse. > > Sadly due to the way in which people have had ONE CLASS ONE FILE > drilled into their head since PEAR and continuing through Zend and > PSR-0, it can become a PITA to add some simple functionality if a > small class is needed for one tiny thing. > > Anonymous functions alleviate that annoyance with a simple and > consistent feature that just give people a nice simple option to get > their jobs done, without hitting autoloaders and file systems to do > it. > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
