Re: how to mark protected properties?
| From: | Tomas V.V.Cox | Date: | Mon, 07 Jun 2004 23:15:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: how to mark protected properties? | ||
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Bertrand Mansion wrote:
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.IMHO, as silly as sounds to prefix all vars with '_', sounds to create dozen methods/calls for getting access to those protected vars. Tomas V.V.Cox