Re: [RFC] Property Accessors 1.2 : Shadowing

Hi! > v1.2 Proposes that this be inverted such that if there is an accessor > defined for a given property name, the accessor will always be used. The > accessor would be able to get/set/isset/unset the property with the same > name as the accessor. No direct access to the property would be allowed > except from within the accessor. One of the deficiencies frequently mentioned for __get was "what if I want to override access for existing variable?" Given that, I think accessor priority is a good thing. Now, with direct access from within the accessor it may get a bit tricky, especially considering loops, etc. What would happen in the scenario of __getHours calling foo() which does "return $this->Hours"? Is __getHours called again? Is it a fatal error? Does it return "undefined" like __get does? > v1.2 proposal seems to make the most sense however it would incur a > slight (possibly *very* slight) performance penalty. It may be an extra hash lookup, but if we could probably add the existence of accessor (or maybe even pointer) into zend_property_info then we wouldn't need the second hash lookup probably. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227