PHP bug or just general weakness...

[filburt1]

PHP doesn't like this:

PHP Code:

// where someclass is a class and somemember is a member function of that class
$o = new someclass()->somemember(); 


Doesn't like the ->. If PHP wants to really compete against bigger languages like ASP it needs to have some basics like this and function overloading and other little bits that people come to expect.

[Neo]

-> = pointer?

[filburt1]

Equivalent to . in Java/C++ when accessing an object's methods.

[Xenon]

shouldn't it be like that:

PHP Code:

$o = new someclass()
$o->somemember(); 


[filburt1]

Yeah but I was hoping you could take a shortcut like most other languages...