Re: private, protected, readonly, public

JM>>1. __get/__set are too cumbersome for simple use cases. (Hence this JM>>thread) This thread is in no way "simple use case". JM>>2. __get/__set is slow. (In the best case: about 10x slower than simple JM>>property, 3x slower than an accessor method call) Slow as opposed to calling different function for different properties, adding additional lookups on each access? JM>>individual properties, just as you can in Java, C#, Ruby, Delphi, JM>>Python, Visual Basic, Objective C, Smalltalk, and sometimes C++. (To JM>>the best of my knowledge.) Read only is a special case of this JM>>capability. This would be, however, yet another level of complexity added to the language... -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ +972-3-6139665 ext.115