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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 18:58:51 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Property write visibility
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Tommins)

On 29/06/2020 17:21, Marco Pivetta wrote:
> Hey Rowan,
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 18:19 Rowan Tommins <rowan.collins@gmail.com 
> <mailto:rowan.collins@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 16:44, Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com
>     <mailto:ocramius@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     > property accessors seem to perpetuate the bad practice
>     > of getters and setters
>     >
>
>
>     Outside of access restrictions, a common use case I've seen for
>     property
>     accessors is lazy-loading, which I know is something you use in
>     other forms.
>
>
> I had already tested the write-once properties RFC with lazy-loading: 
> works just fine ?
>

I meant that property accessors can be used to implement lazy-loading, 
removing the need for magic methods and dynamic references to variables, 
e.g.:

class Whatever {
     private string $_name;
     public string $name {
          get {
              if( ! isset($_name) ) { $this->loadData(); }
              return $this->_name;
          }
     }
}


Regards,

-- 
Rowan Tommins (né Collins)
[IMSoP]