Re: how to mark protected properties?

Tomas V.V.Cox wrote: >Bertrand Mansion wrote: >> Tomas V.V.Cox wrote: >> >>>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. > >Please read it again: "methods/calls" (replace "/" with "or"), >specially >the "calls". Now imagine the cost inside a > 100 loop, any basic php >performance tutorial will tell you it. I am not sure you understand what protected is ? You can still do your > 100 loop with $this->foo = value if you need to. If you need to do a > 100 loop somewhere outside your object, just pass the values to iterate by reference as an array to your object and let it do the assignment job. I don't see a performance problem with that. Maybe a less basic tutorial could tell you about it. Bertrand Mansion Mamasam