Re: Request Feedback for Instance Variable Sugar RFC

On top of the cultural disposition, there is also the fact that things should not be removed from the language without deprecating them, so at best 7.0 would emit and E_DEPRECATED for the usage of "@". - Stelian On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net> wrote: > Hi > > 2015-03-09 15:11 GMT+01:00 Shawn McCool <shawn@heybigname.com>: > > I guess that if I thought that PHP would change its scoping, I would have > > tried for that. > > Well take this code into consideration: > <?php > class A { > protected $b; > > function c($b) { > $b = $b; // does not work > } > > function d($d) { > $b = $d; // works > } > } > ?> > > A::c() will fail because the parameter $b conflicts with the property > A::$b, but example works because the parameter is now named $d, and > therefore making $b available for assignment (should probably > internally be implemented as a reference to $this->b), but only on > demand (JIT) to avoid extra memory consumption. > > This approach may seem quirky at first, but it doesn't add any new > syntax but some magic behind the scenes. Although I personally am not > a huge fan of magic variables like that, it is possible. > > > > -- > regards, > > Kalle Sommer Nielsen > kalle@php.net > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >