Re: supporting the final keyword for properties

C# does this with the readonly keyword, sounds like a good idea. On 16 July 2012 13:25, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > The recent > http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg59301.html > discussion > made me wonder why did we decide not supporting the final keywords for > properties as it would provide an easy way for read-only attributes (const > would be a better choice in performance wise, but then you can only set it > in your declaration where no dynamic expression is allowed.) > > I would like it to work the same way as it does in java( > > http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-4.html#jls-4.12.4) > eg. > you can set the initial value either in the declaration or later on, but > after it is set, you can't change it, trying to do that would create a > recoverable fatal error (or throwing an exception which extends > RuntimeException). > > What do you think? Would this be viable? Is there any still-present reason > why we shouldn't support that? > > -- > Ferenc Kovács > @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu -- Andrew Faulds (AJF) http://ajf.me/