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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:53:19 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Property Accessors v1.2 : Extra shorthand declaration
From: tbprogrammer@gmail.com (Jazzer Dane)

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Is the only intended benefit behind this proposal the ability to seamlessly
extend a seemingly normal property as an accessor?

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Clint Priest <cpriest@zerocue.com> wrote:

> I'm opening up several new threads to get discussion going on the
> remaining "being debated" categories referenced in this 1.1 -> 1.2 change
> spec:
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/**propertygetsetsyntax-as-**
> implemented/change-requests<https://wiki.php.net/rfc/propertygetsetsyntax-as-implemented/change-requests>
>
> ------------------------------**------------------------------**
> ------------
> *Extra shorthand declaration*
>
> Allow extra short declaration of an accessor:
>
> class TimePeriod {
>     public DateTime $date;
> }
>
> /* Would be equivalent to this */
>
> class TimePeriod {
>     public $date {
>         get() { return $this->date; }
>         set(DateTime $value) { $this->date = $value;}
>     }
> }
>
> ------------------------------**------------------------------**
> ------------
> Thoughts?
>
> --
> -Clint
>
>

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