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Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 09:26:37 -0600
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To: "Sebastian B.-Hagensen" <sbj.ml.read@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP7 and types
From: levim@php.net (Levi Morrison)

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 3:51 AM, Sebastian B.-Hagensen
<sbj.ml.read@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2015-07-14 11:05 GMT+02:00 S.A.N <ua.san.alex@gmail.com>:
>> Maybe implement getter/setter as ECMAScript 6?
>>
>> class Person
>> {
>>     get name ():string       { return $this._name }
>>     set name (string $value)     { $this._name = $value }
>> }
>
> Which was rejected some time ago. (34 vs 22 in favor):
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/propertygetsetsyntax-v1.2
>
> Maybe it's time to reevaluate the proposal and see if a new
> implementation could gather
> more support.

I personally voted no on that proposal because of the proposed syntax
and semantics. However I do like the idea of getters and setters and
definitely prefer a Dart-like syntax (which is where ECMAScript
basically got its syntax).