Question

Does anyone know if the following expression will be possible in the next version(s) of PHP?

(new A())->a();    // Causes a syntax error 

I find very annoying that currently one must write 2 lines instead of 1:

$c = new A(); $c->a(); 

Answer 1

The first version does not cause a parse error, it is perfectly valid. The second it is, indeed not possible, but you can easily overcome such a problem with some coding standards.

If every team member creates, for each defined class, a function with the same name as the class, and a signature similar to the signature of the class constructor, then you won’t have the second problem. Example:

class Foo {     public function __construct($param)     {}      public function bar()     {} }  /**  * @return Foo  */ function Foo($param) {     return new Foo($param); }  Foo()->bar(); 

Of course, you’ll still have problems with library code.