Re: how to mark protected properties?

Tomas V.V.Cox wrote: >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. If you are clever, all you need is 2 methods. That's called key-value coding. Bertrand Mansion Mamasam