Re: Re: Friend class/function

Hi Rowan, Rowan Collins wrote:

Andrea Faulds wrote on 01/11/2015 19:35:

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.

Would "package" (namespace-based) visibility have solved the problem in this case? That's something I've often wanted - "this is public within this Lib, but should never be used outside it".

Yep, that would have worked, and that sounds like a much cleaner solution. Package/namespace visibility would solve a bunch of other use-cases too. Thanks! -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/