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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:39:18 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Immutable/final/readonly properties
From: larry@garfieldtech.com ("Larry Garfield")

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020, at 11:25 AM, Nicolas Grekas wrote:
> > > I repeat what I wrote before but all those problems would disappear if we
> > > were to bind the proposal to visibility:
> > > https://externals.io/message/108675#108753
> > >
> > > We could even consider splitting "read" and "write" in two separate
> > > keywords, each bound to visibility, isn't it?
> >
> > How would 2 separate keywords work, syntactically/visually?  I can see how
> > it would solve a larger cluster of use cases, but I'm not sure what the
> > code would look like. :-)
> >
> 
> Hum dunno, I throw the idea to fish for interest and now I can not figure
> out an answer to your question... :P
> Back to my previous suggestion on my side, which provides the core of the
> benefits we strive for IMHO...
> 
> Nicolas

My best off-the-cuff thought would be compound name keywords.

readpublic writeprotected string $foo

Or something like that.  Which... looks kind of ugly since I don't think we can do kebab case keywords. :-)

--Larry Garfield