Re: [RFC] Property write visibility

From:	Rowan Tommins	Date:	Mon, 29 Jun 2020 17:58:51 +0000
Subject:	Re: [RFC] Property write visibility
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On 29/06/2020 17:21, Marco Pivetta wrote:

Hey Rowan, On Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 18:19 Rowan Tommins <rowan.collins@gmail.com <mailto:rowan.collins@gmail.com>> wrote:
    On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 16:44, Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com
    <mailto:ocramius@gmail.com>> wrote:
property accessors seem to perpetuate the bad practice of getters and setters
    Outside of access restrictions, a common use case I've seen for
    property
    accessors is lazy-loading, which I know is something you use in
    other forms.
I had already tested the write-once properties RFC with lazy-loading: works just fine 👍

I meant that property accessors can be used to implement lazy-loading, removing the need for magic methods and dynamic references to variables, e.g.: class Whatever {

    private string $_name;
    public string $name {
         get {
             if( ! isset($_name) ) { $this->loadData(); }
             return $this->_name;
         }
    }

} Regards, -- Rowan Tommins (né Collins) [IMSoP]