Re: OOP and Future of PHP

At 4/25/2001 09:02 PM, Reuben D Budiardja wrote:

The only thing that I feel lack of in PHP is the real Object Oriented stuff, such as information hiding in the object in classes i.e. private and public variables, methods/functions. This in a sene make it really difficult for developer to build an API for other developers that is secure. I myself have this problem. Is there any reasons why PHP was designed like this from the beginning? Is this issue going to be addresses somehow in the future? Anyone has any idea? If anyone has any idea, or tricks to hide information in a variables or method in a class, or in other words, make a variable or method a private, I would really like to know. Thanks for any comments.

Python also does not do information hiding, but people rarely call Python's OO features as not real. :-) It's a matter of choice, though, I don't see any real hindrance of PHP implementing this in the future version. As Rasmus said, PHP does not have introspection (once again, unlike Python which is very "introspective"), this is less of a problem, especially with function calls API. What I *really* like to see in PHP is: - NAMESPACE - TRACEBACK INFO - exception (try-except block) - $obj->method()->anotherMethod() - real destructor would be nice, but not extremely important for the time being, due to the nature of PHP usage in Web pages Please tell me it's on the top'ish of the TODO list :-) Steve