Re: private, protected, readonly, public

In C++ you'd use private for this. All object members are readable, but modifyability depends on the relation between the caller and the object. I don't quite understand why PHP is doing it differently. - Ron "Jason Garber" <jason@ionzoft.com> schreef in bericht news:785810036.20060511193536@ionzoft.com... > Hello internals, > > __get() and __set() are great, but 90% of the time, I find myself > using them to create public readonly properties. > > The only problem with this is it is horridly inefficient, consuming > at least 1 function call and one switch statement (or equiv) per > property read. > > Would it be possible to create a new object property attribute: > readonly > > class xx > { > readonly $bar; > } > > $o = new xx(); > > $o->bar = 10; > >>> FATAL ERROR > > > This way, PHP would allow reading (as if it were public), but only > allow writing from within the class. > > I think it could really boost performance of complicated application > logic that wishes to enforce good visibility. > > Comments? > > PS. What brought this up was some serious performance issues in a > piece of code that I am working with - most of which can be tied > back to __get() performance. > > -- > Best regards, > Jason Garber mailto:jason@ionzoft.com > IonZoft, Inc.