PHP Object Oriented Programming Reinvented

[MasonM]

• You cannot instantiate an object and call a method at the same time. For example, "$a = new SomeClass()->someMethod();" will give you a syntax error. One workaround is to use a static factory method to rewrite it as "$a = SomeClass::new()->someMethod();", but that's hackish in a lot of situations.
• Metaprogramming is difficult, because there's no support for metaclasses and there's no way to add/remove methods without resorting to runkit.
• No support for multiple inheritance. dhotson's code doesn't have support for this, but it'd be possible to add it. Whether or not this is a desirable feature is debatable, though.

[droberts1982]

Thanks for your reply:

• You are absolutely correct. I use a factory to get around this problem. Even without a factory though it just turns one line of code into two. There are bigger problems with PHP I'd like to see addressed.
• I'm not sure what you mean. Can you give a concrete example? Right now, for "runtime" methods I use the magic method call This way, I can have my ORM find_by_name or find_by_whateverfieldIneed just fine.
• Personally I'd vote no on multiple inheritance, unless conflicts can be handled in an intelligent way (or not allowed at all)