Re: A question of style - Properties

Quoting clayton collie <ccollie@cau.edu>: > actually my question is slightly different. in my object, i have > "properties" that may trigger actions in the library that implements it. as > a simple example setting $url_fetcher->url = > "http://php.net" would load > the page into an internal buffer. the code is written in C so, im talking > properties in the zend "overloaded" sense of the term (for instance in the > COM module) . In my opinion, that should definitely be a method call; also, it's not a get/set call, it should be loadPage() or something like that. Having a method like that set an internal property is a perfectly reasonable side effect; setting a property causing a page to be loaded is rather more drastic. (unless you're talking about a property-change event, like java gives you, but that's a rather different setup...) -chuck -- Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org> You will receive an urgent transmission from the Martian government informing you that Mars does not, in fact, need women, so please stop sending them.