Re: [RFC] Property Accessors v1.2 : Internal Accessor Method Visibility / Callability

Hi! > What is "reflection hiding patches" referring to? Reflection is changed > to reflect what the user has defined, that's what reflection is supposed > to be.. no? No. Reflection is supposed to show which methods exist on a class, which can be called from certain context, etc. This has nothing to do with where they were defined. > Lastly, this idea that accessors is such a foreign concept is a bit > ridiculous. You'd be hard pressed to find a modern/popular language > these days that doesn't have them, so if someone is confused about what PHP doesn't have them. Also, by your definition, Python doesn't have them - in Python, __ methods are regular methods. Also, by your definition, Ruby doesn't have them either - in Ruby, you define them as regular methods, and you very well can call them too: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/621176/how-to-dynamically-call-accessor-methods-in-ruby#621193. Javascript doesn't have them either. Java doesn't have them either. So I'm not that hard pressed to find languages that don't follow your model, as you can see. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227