Re: private, protected, readonly, public

Definatly would love to see readonly, It would remove 1000's of lines of useless code from 100's of projects - which might make a few more public PHP projects readable ;) It replaces pointless giberish with something explicit clean and elegant.. Looks alot tidier than getters, or __get kludges. Regards Alan Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:

Bastian Grupe wrote:

Uhh... how about using private and only using a "regular" getter (the Java-style) and no setter? class xx {

      private $bar;

      public getBar() { return $bar; }

}

i think you're missing the point, the idea is to *not* have to write that extra getter line ... less typing *and* less error prone ... and easier to read, too IMHO You didn't want to return $bar in your example, you wanted to return $this->bar so you already ran into one of the issues here ;)