Re: Friend class/function

Hi, One thing that should be worth mentioning is that my approach of private classes is decoupled in 2 parts. The first one as the ability to prevent instantiation outside of namespace and sub-namespaces. The second is the ability to access protected members, which matches your wish of friend classes nicely. However, I could not even tackle the second part without discussing and agreeing on the first one, so I limited the scope of my wish in order to simplify overall RFC phase. Regards, On Nov 2, 2015 7:17 AM, "François Laupretre" <francois@php.net> wrote: > Hi Georges, > > Le 01/11/2015 17:04, georges a écrit : > >> ​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. >> >> > You may be interested by an article I wrote some weeks ago about adapting > the 'friendship' concept to PHP ( > http://tekwire.net/joomla/projects/ideas/php-friend). IMO, we > should > enable friendship from classes and/or namespaces, with and without > inheritance, giving four cases : class, class and descendants, namespace, > namespace and sub-namespaces. > > One more detail : I wouldn't set the 'friend' information on the same line > as the class declaration. First reason is that it already contains > 'extends' and 'implements' stances. 2nd reason is that the information is > not required by the compiler to start compiling the class body. So, > 'friend' lines can be part of the class body. > > Use cases go well beyond test classes. There are many cases where you need > to access methods and/or even whole classes from a set of known locations, > but don't want to make them public. Today, the only way is to use protected > access but it implies class inheritance which, often, is not an option. An > example is symfony using the '@internal' tag to mark > class/properties/methods which mustn't be accessed from the outside of > symfony (see > > http://symfony.com/doc/current/contributing/code/bc.html#using-our-classes). > Information is better than nothing but a way to enforce access restrictions > would be welcome. > > About Guilherme's proposal : it seems fine but, IMHO, the 'friend' concept > includes it, is easier to implement, and goes much further. > > Regards > > François > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >