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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:16:47 +0100
To: "John Carter -X (johncart - PolicyApp Ltd at Cisco)" <johncart@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Class Properties in Interfaces?
From: letssurf@gmail.com ("James Dempster")

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I would start by saying it's bad design. you should use getters and setters
which you can define in you interface

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/James

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:07 AM, John Carter -X (johncart - PolicyApp Ltd
at Cisco) <johncart@cisco.com> wrote:

> Marcus,
>
> I understand why Interfaces can't have bodies, but could you explain why
> Interfaces can't have properties?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcus Boerger [mailto:helly@php.net]
> Sent: 29 April 2008 10:46
> To: Jeremy Privett
> Cc: PHP Developers Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Class Properties in Interfaces?
>
> Hello Jeremy,
>
>  interfaces cannot have properties, nor can they have method bodies -
> that is the whole purpose of interfafces. We are thinking of adding
> traits which would allow for both but would treat inheritance
> differently. Until we get that you would need to provide an abstract
> interface to access data in the same way.
>
> marcus
>
> Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 5:31:33 AM, you wrote:
>
> > Hey list,
>
> > I was curious what everyone thought of implementing the ability to
> > specify class members in interfaces. I've run into a couple of
> > circumstances where I would like to specify public member names inside
>
> > of an interface to ensure that these members are accessed in a
> > standard way and to ensure that they exist. Currently, trying to
> > include them in an interface results in "*Fatal error*: Interfaces may
>
> > not include member variables in file/line number".
>
> > Thoughts?
>
> > Thanks.
>
> > --
> > Jeremy Privett
> > C.E.O. & C.S.A.
> > Omega Vortex Corporation
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>
>
>
> Best regards,
>  Marcus
>
>
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