Re: property de-referencing

> > This won't work, because Task::$task is a protected property It will work for code that's properly documented with @property annotations.. On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Jannik Zschiesche <hello@apfelbox.net>wrote: > Hi, > > Lazare Inepologlou <linepogl@gmail.com> > Mittwoch, 1. Mai 2013 10:55 > Hello, > > 2013/5/1 Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> > > > > The result is the same with "new ReplectionMethod('foo','bar')". > The added > value is that it can be statically checked. > > well... yes and no. > > Take the Symfony2 example: > you want to reference ^$task->task with autocompletion in your IDE? > > This won't work, because Task::$task is a protected property. Symfony2 > does the magic for you and automagically accesses the getters and setters.. > This probably won't work with property references, since you can't get the > getters and setters for it (except relying on the name of the property as > string and manipulating it). > > Soo... I guess, for this feature, to be useful, we need object accessors > first (which were recently rejected by vote)? > > > Cheers > Jannik > > > Lazare INEPOLOGLOU > Ingénieur Logiciel > > Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> > Mittwoch, 1. Mai 2013 01:12 > Hi! > > > PHP has functions that can be result of __call or arbitrary code that > implements fcall handler in an extension. What would be returned then? > Lazare Inepologlou <linepogl@gmail.com> > Mittwoch, 1. Mai 2013 00:20 > 2013/4/30 Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> <rasmus@lerdorf.com> > > In C#, they had the intention to introduce the operator infoof(...) to get > the reflection, not only of properties, but of virtually everything in the > language. They abandoned the idea because it is really hard to do that for > overloaded functions and they did not want to do all that work for a half > baked feature: > > > > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2009/05/21/in-foof-we-trust-a-dialogue.aspx > > However, PHP does not have overloaded functions, which makes things > significantly easier, so maybe it is worth examining the idea. > > > Lazare INEPOLOGLOU > Ingénieur Logiciel > > Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> > Dienstag, 30. April 2013 23:00 > > It is certainly not worth overloading the XOR operator for. > > -Rasmus > > > Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> > Dienstag, 30. April 2013 22:58 > Hi! > > > You probably have use case for that, and it should be pretty easy to > write a class that does that, but why it should be in the language? It > certainly doesn't look like something sizeable portion of PHP devs would > do frequently. > >