Re: More work on reflection API
| From: | Andrei Zmievski | Date: | Thu, 03 Jul 2003 13:25:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: More work on reflection API | ||
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On Tue, 01 Jul 2003, Timm Friebe wrote:
> - Added Reflection_Class::getModifiers which returns a long
> consisting of the bitmask of modifiers which are registered
> as constants with the following names:
>
> STATIC
> ABSTRACT
> FINAL
> INTERFACE
> ABSTRACT_CLASS
> FINAL_CLASS
> PUBLIC
> PROTECTED
> PRIVATE
> PPP_MASK
> CHANGED
> IMPLICIT_PUBLIC
Should these be grouped somehow? PPP has a separate domain than
ABSTRACT_CLASS and FINAL_CLASS, for example.
> TBDiscussed: Would something like
> $modifiers= array('public', 'static')
> be cooler? Currently, one would be checking with
> $modifiers & STATIC
No, I'd prefer a bitmask rather than an array like that.
-Andrei
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