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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:41:56 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: C-sharp style property get/set syntax for PHP
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 12:18 -0600, larry@garfieldtech.com wrote:
> Another advantage here would presumably be performance.  If there's
> no 
> getter defined then the engine could simply map $foo->bar to the
> class 
> member directly (which is really fast) and not to a method, so
> there's 
> no added overhead there.  That still leaves the question of what
> happens 
> with name collisions, though.

Don't kow what you mean by "the engine" in this case? The compiler? - no
the compiler can't a) it has no idea what type $foo is b) think about
inheritance etc. The executor - well there's no win possible.

johannes