Re: Class Access Modifiers

>> Proposal (after five minutes of thought) >> >> >> 1. Public - A class can be instantiated or called statically from >> anywhere. For reasons of backward compatibility a class without any modifier >> would be considered public. >> >> 2. Internal - A class can only be instantiated/called from within the >> same root namespace. If I have a class Core\Mvc\View, only from within a >> class sharing the same root namespace (ex: Core\Html\Textbox) would I be >> able to access the "View" class. >> >> 3. Private - A class can only be instantiated/called from within the >> exact same namespace. Example, class Core\Mvc\View could only be accessed >> from a class in the Core\Mvc namespace (ex: Core\Mvc\Controller). >> >> What do people think? I'm not too concerned with the exact three I listed >> above, but more and more I think it would be wise if there were a way to >> restrict the accessibility of classes between namespaces. >> >> Jarrod Nettles >> Really like the general idea and think (IMHO) its RFC worthy, but have a few questions... Would there be any method of overriding the the visibility in a child class?And would the child class inherit the parents visibility? I realise this may seem daft initially but I can think of some instances where this might be useful. James