Re: RFC: C-sharp style property get/set syntax for PHP

>> Just to chime in on the subject of performance, here is how C# handles >> properties: > > PHP is not a compiled language and as such handling of properties, in > particular, is radically different in PHP. For example, the property > name in expression like $foo->$bar is known only in runtime. Yes, of course. Like I say, that is just how it works in C#, I make no claims about how it would or should work in PHP. I was just hoping that comparisons to C# would help to inform the discussion. However, I would imagine that the get/set within a property would be interpreted as methods in PHP irregardless, so apart from checking to see if a class member is a property, and finding its get/set method to call, would the performance not be exactly that of a method call? - Dennis