Re: RFC: C-sharp style property get/set syntax for PHP
| From: | Johannes Schlüter | Date: | Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:41:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RFC: C-sharp style property get/set syntax for PHP | ||
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On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 12:18 -0600, larry@garfieldtech.com wrote:
> Another advantage here would presumably be performance. If there's
> no
> getter defined then the engine could simply map $foo->bar to the
> class
> member directly (which is really fast) and not to a method, so
> there's
> no added overhead there. That still leaves the question of what
> happens
> with name collisions, though.
Don't kow what you mean by "the engine" in this case? The compiler? - no
the compiler can't a) it has no idea what type $foo is b) think about
inheritance etc. The executor - well there's no win possible.
johannes