Re: Future plans (4.1) ?

On Friday 02 February 2001 14:47, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > So If possible I'd like to hear from the developers if > > they have a TODO that includes such things for a 4.X > > release? > As for better OO. I think many of the things people ask for, like > visibility (public,private,protected) class properties, aren't actually > features that add functionality, but more just convenience features > that could be implemented in user space. I disagree. Just as with strong typing (which I hope will be added to PHP5 (optional - see how it's planned for Perl6)), language-enforced OO visibility makes it possible that the *compiler* (interpreter) immediately catches a bug that could hide for ages otherwise. Errare humanum est - conventions can't prevent mistakes. > For example, you could establish a convention that said that any class > property that starts with an _underscore should be considered a private > property, and one would hope that your UML tool could be configured to > understand that. -- Christian Reiniger LGDC Webmaster (http://sunsite.dk/lgdc/) Google results 1-10 of about 142,000,000 for e. Search took 0.18 seconds. - http://www.google.com/search?q=e