Re: private, protected, readonly, public

Hello Andi, that is why most here already switched to "public readable". best regards marcus Tuesday, May 16, 2006, 11:31:14 PM, you wrote: > I can't quite explain it but for me the ability to work-around > private with methods which are able to access the private variable, > is different than marking a property as read-only but it not being > read-only in all semantics. Probably because private variables do > often have getters and setters, whereas something which is marked as > read-only (like a harddrive) tends to be read-only always. > Andi > At 02:08 PM 5/16/2006, Zeev Suraski wrote: >>>However, the reason i write this mail is that you said there could be >>>problems. Well this is deply integrated in the handlers and they don't >>>let you out. In other words if this stuff is not working then the whole >>>PHP 5+ object model is broken. Or in other words, if this is broken alot >>>of other stuff regarding object handling is already broken. >> >>You're probably right about this one. You can already return a >>reference to a private variable today and change it. Andi - did you >>mean something else? Best regards, Marcus