Re: Getting rid of "underscore for private method names" coding standard

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Christian Weiske <cweiske@cweiske.de> wrote: > Hello all, > > > I refer to http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.naming.php > > Time has come to get rid of the "Private class members are preceded by > a single underscore" rule. There are several reasons for that: > > 1. PHP5 has visibility modificator support (public, private, protected) > 2. Having an underscore preceding private methods and class variables >   makes it impossible to open up the API without breaking existing >   code. Just imagine that a currently private method shall become >   protected or public because time has shown that it can and should be >   used outside. >   Technically it is no BC (backwards compatibility) break, because >   private methods and class variables could only be used from within >   the class itself, but still it may mean that a lot of code has to be >   changed. > > > Ideas on this issue? Great ideas! +1 Till