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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 13:12:52 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Readonly properties - immutability by default
From: weirdan@gmail.com (Bruce Weirdan)

On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 9:45 AM Eugene Sidelnyk <zsidelnik@gmail.com> wrote:

> Readonly properties are really useful for DDD, where everything is going to
> be immutable. It promotes best practices. However for people to use it,
> syntax should be concise and brief.

If every property of the class is readonly it would probably be better
to declare that with a class modifier.

E.g.

```php
readonly class Entity {
    public int $count;
    public string $data;
}
```

Though `readonly` doesn't look like a perfect fit in that position to me.

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  Best regards,
      Bruce Weirdan                                     mailto:weirdan@gmail.com