Re: [RFC] Readonly Properties

Chris Wright wrote on 28/10/2014 09:46:

I would suggest something like this: public $foobar {

    get { return $this->bar * $this->foo; }
    private set($value) { $this->bar = $value / $this->foo }

} ...where only a single visibility modifier is permitted on the left, and this is treated as the *default* visibility for the accessors, which are free to declare another visibility if they want - so the following would be equivalent: public $foobar {

    public get { return $this->bar * $this->foo; }
    private set($value) { $this->bar = $value / $this->foo }

}

The reason I opted for using var rather than having modifiers on both sides was because I wasn't sure what should be done with expressions like this: public $foo { private get; private set; } Is that allowed, and actually creates a private property? Or does the compiler detect it and give some kind of error? It feels like a bug in the syntax that the same information is included in more than one place, meaning it can express contradictions. -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]