Re: C# properties vs. accessors RFC

Am 24.01.2013 02:12, schrieb Levi Morrison:

I also don't like the ? for nullable. Just stick with PHP convention and do:

      class Foo {
          public Bar $bar = NULL;
      }

There is no such PHP convention. The PHP convention is *not restrict type* (+"loosely typed" addons). So NULL is automatically allowed.

For properties, yes, but the idea it stems from is type-hints. Given the following type-hint, passing a null is not allowed:

     class Foo {
       function bar(Bar $bar) {}
     }

Whereas in the following NULL is allowed:

     class Foo {
       function bar(Bar $bar = NULL) {}
     }

This is what I mean by the PHP convention for allowing NULL.

Hello Levi, you absolutly right. I was confused by the syntax. This properties are normal methods and should behave the same. Mixing "initialize-with-NULL" and "optional/nullable" is somewhat messy though. cryptocompress