Comment by larsnystrom

I've been writing PHP for 20 years now. It's my bread and butter.

The one thing I really wish PHP would add is structurally typed objects. I really miss it when moving back and forth between PHP and TypeScript.

They could call them anonymous objects if they want to (that would be a more culturally correct analogue to anonymous classes).

Like, I wish it was possible to do

  {
    string $mystring = $myvar,
  }

and have it be equivalent to

  new class($myvar) {
    public function __construct(
      readonly public string $mystring,
    ) {}
  }

and then be able to typehint it like

  function ({ string $mystring } $myobj) {
    echo $myobj->mystring;
  }

and honestly, why not go all the way and allow type definitions/aliases, something like

  type myobj_type = { string $mystring };

That'd be great.