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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Propety Accessors v1.1
From: davidkmuir@gmail.com (David Muir)

On 10/10/12 21:41, Jazzer Dane wrote:
> Here's my feedback on some current outstanding issues/suggestions:
>
> 1) Default value: I think having functionality for a default value is
> necessary, but I'm also thinking it may already be implementable within the
> current syntax.
>
>> class Test {
>>      private $seconds;
>>      public $hours {
>>          get() {
>>              if(!is_null($this->seconds)) {
>>                  return $this->seconds;
>>              } else {
>>                  return 10; // 10 is default
>>              }
>>          }
>>      }
>> }
>>
> The above should work fine in many scenarios, right?
> We could perhaps then claim that the issue may rather be that we need
> access to the variable *$hours* itself inside of the get/set/etc functions,
> which I think has been brought up before - though I'm not so sure how
> sensible that is. Whether we need that or not is up in the air.
>

I think the syntax for defaults would be:

class UsingInitialValue {
     private $seconds = 36000;
     public $hours {
         get() { return $this->seconds/3600;}
     }
}

class UsingLazyLoad {
     public $seconds {
         get() { return $this->seconds = 36000;}
         set($value) {$this->seconds = (int) $value;}
     }
}

class UsingConstructor {
     public $seconds {
         set($value) {$this->seconds = (int) $value;}
     }
     public function __construct(){
         $this->seconds = 36000;
     }
}


I think I've got those all right...

Cheers,
David