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Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2023 22:01:19 -0500
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To: Levi Morrison <morrison.levi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Interface Default Methods
From: ben@benramsey.com (Ben Ramsey)

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> On Jul 2, 2023, at 21:43, Levi Morrison <morrison.levi@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 7:08=E2=80=AFPM Ben Ramsey <ben@benramsey.com> =
wrote:
>>=20
>> I=E2=80=99m probably going to vote =E2=80=9Cyes=E2=80=9D on this, but =
since the property accessors RFC won=E2=80=99t be ready for 8.3,[1] and =
that RFC covers use of properties in interfaces, how useful will =
interface default methods be without interface properties?
>=20
> Plenty useful, I think. Interfaces deal with abstractions, so there
> are often things you can do without having state. Java's interfaces
> don't allow properties, for instance, and they still have this
> feature.
>=20
> As an example, this poor-man Sequence interface works, because the
> behavior and state for `next` is provided by the implementer:
>=20


Thanks for the response. This makes perfect sense to me now.

Cheers,
Ben


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