Re: Friend class/function

Hi Georges, georges wrote:

​Hi php internals, I recently discovered ​the "friendship concept" in c++ and i really love the concept. And i wonder if the php internals would be interested to implements it in the next 7.x major version.

I recently wished PHP had this feature when trying to implement the Khronos Group Typed Arrays specification in PHP, which requires sharing certain data between unrelated (inheritance-wise) classes. I ended up having to expose a public method to get the data, but named in a way that was likely to deter use. I think friend classes might be useful, then. I'm not sure if they're necessarily something we should add to HPP, though. Are there that many use-cases? Thanks. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/