Re: [PHP-DEV] Object instantiation

2008-04-18 Thread Sam Barrow
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 11:42 -0700, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > > > $result = new myObject -> myMethod(); > > > > Is there a technical reason as to why this can't be done? If not can > > this be changed? > > I think this can not be parsed unambiguously. This could be new > (expression with

Re: [PHP-DEV] Object instantiation

2008-04-18 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! $result = new myObject -> myMethod(); Is there a technical reason as to why this can't be done? If not can this be changed? I think this can not be parsed unambiguously. This could be new (expression with ->) or (new expression)->expression. E.g., what this means: $a = new $foo->bar();