Re: Method parameter promotion support

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 10:43 AM Pierre R. <pierre-php@processus.org> wrote: > Le 26/11/2020 à 17:30, David Rodrigues a écrit : > > It is just an idea to discuss. PHP 8 now supports parameter promotion via > > constructor. Could this idea also work for common methods? > > > > public function setAge(private int $age) {} > > === > > private int $age; > > public function setAge(int $age) { $this->age = $age; } > > It sounds weird for me, Same. I'd also add that for solving this problem (boilerplate accessors), I'd much rather see us adopt C# like accessor methods and/or offer something like the expressive methods that Larry suggested a couple weeks ago. Both of those have a more generalized path to addressing this, IMO. -Sara