Re: PHP's vision

John, Whether we end up having private methods or not, it's way beyond their scope to address the issue of security, and protecting data from someone who has access to their code. It's always possible to work around that level of 'security', whether it's in C++, Java or any other language. private members/methods are an issue of software development methodologies, and have nothing to do with security. Zeev At 11:44 AM 6/3/2002, John Lim wrote:

Hi Sebastian, Unfortunately some people are paranoid about security. We might not want people to fiddle around with the internals of a class, for example an authentication class which holds the passwords of users. Even if the whole web site is Zend Encoded, doing a var_dump on $GLOBALS will reveal a lot about .the site. Regards, John "Sebastian Bergmann" <sebastian@php.net> wrote in message news:3CFB1052.F0A09293@sebastian-bergmann.de... John Lim wrote:

Private members and methods are essential from a security view-point,

Why? They solve social issues between developers.

and perhaps application variables, but that's about it.

SRM adds Application Variables to the PHP Platform. -- Sebastian Bergmann

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