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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 01:41:33 +0200
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To: Clint Priest <cpriest@zerocue.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Propety Accessors v1.1
From: amaury@amaury.net (Amaury Bouchard)

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You really don't want to even think about my idea? It's complementary on
some aspects, you know.

2012/10/11 Clint Priest <cpriest@zerocue.com>

> Rather than go to the trouble of finding a reasonable way to hold a vote
> on these issues, is there anyone against the following changes:
>
> 1) Eliminate the ability for an accessor to be called via
> $o->__getHours(), the accessor functions will be completely unavailable for
> use except as property references ($o->Hours)
> 2) Change syntax to use public set($value) { }, public get(), etc.  (and
> along with that means no more "magic" $value)
> 2a) If possible, allow for Type Hinting...
> 3) Eliminate automatically implemented get; set;, no automatic backing
> field creation will occur.
> 4) read-only / write-only keywords will be eliminated
> 5) Exceptions thrown from accessors will be made more appropriate (I will
> also check debug_backtrace information, etc)...
>
> If there isn't anyone against the above changes, I will make the changes
> to the RFC and re-present for final agreement...
>
> Or... do ya'll want to vote on the aforementioned changes?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Clint Priest [mailto:cpriest@zerocue.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 7:36 PM
> > To: internals@lists.php.net
> > Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Propety Accessors v1.1
> >
> > Okay, I would like this to be the last time there are revisions to this
> RFC.
> >
> > To sum up the last few days of conversations, I have these down as
> points of contention:
> >
> > 1.  Accessor functions should not be present on the object and callable
> directly, for example, $o->__getHours() should not be
> > allowed.
> > 2.  Preferred syntax for accessors should be "public set($value) { ...
> }" with no "magic" $value (with possible type hinting) 3.
> > Automatically implemented get; set; with auto-backing field should be
> eliminated as this is not necessary for PHP and is confusing
> > most everyone.
> > 4.  read-only / write-only keywords, keep them or get rid of them?
>  There is no directly suitable replacement but I believe a private
> > final set() { } will take care of it, even though it much more verbose.
> > 5.  Error handling for thrown exceptions should be made more appropriate
> for accessors 6.  The "truth" of reflection.  Should it reveal
> > details internal to how PHP works on the inside or should it reflect the
> way PHP presents it as options?
> >
> > Did I miss anything?
> >
> >
> > I will come up with some way for people to vote on the issues at hand
> and we can cast our votes and be done with it, then I will
> > finish the project and get it out the door.
> >
> > -Clint
>

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