Re: Proposal: shorthand object property setting syntax.

From: Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:29:27 +0000
Subject: Re: Proposal: shorthand object property setting syntax.
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On 27 Mar 2010, at 17:23, Martin Jansen wrote:

> On 27.03.10 17:02, Toorion wrote:
>> $myLongNameObject = new MyLongNameObject();
>> $myLongNameObject->property1 = '11111';
>> $myLongNameObject->property2 = '22222';
>> $myLongNameObject->property3 = '33333';
>> $myLongNameObject->property4 = '44444';
>> $myLongNameObject->property5 = '55555';
> 
> [...]
> 
>> $MyLongNameObject = new MyLongNameObject() {
>>    $property1 = '1111';
>>    $property2 = '2222';
>>    $property3 = '4444';
>>    $property4 = '5555';
>> }
> 
> What exactly do you gain with the new syntax?  You don't save LOC with
> it (actually it requires one more line) and you still have to type all
> the property names.  Using an editor with code completion one can
> produce the code in the current syntax pretty quickly after all.
LOC isn't a very useful metric anyway...

However, the proposal reminds me of Pascal's 'with'-construct:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language)


new(pointertob);
 
with pointertob^ do
begin
  a := 10;
  b := 'A';
  c := nil
end;


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> - Martin
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