Re: Re: [CFV] how to mark protected items?
| From: | Daniel Convissor | Date: | Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:45:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [CFV] how to mark protected items? | ||
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Hans:
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:36:19AM -0400, Hans Lellelid wrote:
>
> Some people are gonna want '_' because they're used to looking at PHP4
> code. '_' is a hack because PHP4 didn't support 'private'. Why that
> should be required for PHP5 code that does support 'private' makes no
> sense.
The reason we need this for two reasons.
Packages are presently written in PHP 4 that will be ported to PHP 5
eventually. We don't want people to mistakenly access those members in
the wrong way and then get bitten by that mistake when the package does go
to PHP 5.
--Dan
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