2016-02-12 16:55 GMT+02:00 Rowan Collins <rowan.coll...@gmail.com>:
> S.A.N wrote on 12/02/2016 14:39:
>>
>> 2016-02-12 16:27 GMT+02:00 Rowan Collins <rowan.coll...@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> S.A.N wrote on 12/02/2016 13:37:
>>>>
>>>> Often all keys are unknown, or a very lot keys, use list(...) - is
>>>> unreal.
>>>>
>>>> I would like to, instead <?php
>>>>
>>>> foreach($params as $key => $value)
>>>> {
>>>> $this{$key} = $value
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> Use the short syntax sugar <?php
>>>>
>>>> $this += $params
>>>>
>>>> ?>
>>>>
>>>> It's really do?
>>>>
>>> If the keys are unknown, then you probably don't want to blindly copy
>>> them
>>> onto object properties; at that point, you might as well just have
>>> $this->data and leave them as an array. It sounds like what you actually
>>> want is an object literal syntax - i.e. $params should never have been an
>>> array in the first place.
>>>
>> I would operator (+=) as like to function Object.assign()
>>
>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object/assign
>
>
> Sure, but I was thinking more in terms of whether this is a strong use case
> for having it. In JS, "Object" is the appropriate type for an arbitrary hash
> of key-value pairs. In PHP, the appropriate type for such a structure is
> "array", which already supports the + operator and array_merge function.
>
> Note that the method you linked doesn't copy from an array onto an object,
> it copies from one object to another. Doing the same in PHP leaves the
> question of how you create the right-hand object, which is why I mentioned
> "object literal syntax", i.e. the ability to write something like "{ a =>
> 42, b => 'Hello' }" or "new Foo { a => 42, b => 'Hello' }" to define an
> object with directly-specified property values, rather than running the
> constructor.
>
> The constructor example using list() syntax is deliberately naming the
> fields we're interested in, because it's populating an object of a
> particular class, with known property names, not dynamically creating
> arbitrary property keys.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Rowan Collins
> [IMSoP]
>
I agree, list() syntax and object literal syntax - is need, +1
But is also necessary and the function or operator like
object_assign($target, ...$sources)
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