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Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 09:45:59 +0000
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To: Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Friend class/function
From: leight@gmail.com (Leigh)

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On 2 November 2015 at 09:25, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote:

> Andrea Faulds wrote on 01/11/2015 19:35:
>
>> I recently wished PHP had this feature when trying to implement the
>> Khronos Group Typed Arrays specification in PHP, which requires sharing
>> certain data between unrelated (inheritance-wise) classes. I ended up
>> having to expose a public method to get the data, but named in a way that
>> was likely to deter use.
>>
>
> Would "package" (namespace-based) visibility have solved the problem in
> this case? That's something I've often wanted - "this is public within this
> Lib, but should never be used outside it".
>
> This was worked on for 7, but had a fundamental problem blocking it - See
Guilherme's recent runtime execution scope mail.

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