Finally. This is a huge step forward for Drupal. After eschewing OOP practices for a long time, its finally winning over core developers, which will make working with Drupal as a Framework easier in many ways. I copied the announcement below, but you can see that patch and discussion here.
This patch is about to be committed. It is the foundation to change for example $comment from an stdClass to a comment specific class allowing for $comment->save(). This is a monumental change and everyone is invited to review and familiarize with the new system even before it is committed.
What is possible when you use proper classes? The first thing I envision is a plugin/pluggable system in the same way that Zend Framework allows you to use Controller Plugins and View Helpers from a pluggable object, without the need to inherit or compose an object. For example, in a Zend View, you can call a partial like this:
{syntaxhighlighter php}
partial(‘my-partial.html’);
?>
Now, the View class doesn’t have a method named partial, instead the magic __call method intercepts the call, gets the Partial view helper, and calls its invoke method.