Re: how to mark protected properties?

Lukas Smith wrote: >Martin Jansen wrote: >> On Mon Jun 07, 2004 at 03:2800PM -0400, Daniel Convissor wrote: >> >>>So, should @private items be preceeded by "_", nothing, or something else? >> >> >> I think protected members should be prefixed with "_" as well, because >> they are semantically more similar to private than to public members. >> And I also think that we should stick to this rule for PHP 5, too. > >+1 -1 Everything should be protected by default in OO code. PHP makes everything public by default, that's just a design error and defeats the whole point of data encapsulation, probably due to BC. I won't prefix all my instance vars with _. Users are free to refer to the API documentation. Bertrand Mansion Mamasam