Re: Some PEAR remarks
| From: | Brent Cook | Date: | Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:07:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Some PEAR remarks | ||
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Vincent Oostindie wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:11:48 +0200, Martin Jansen wrote:
> > Since there are no real private variables in PHP (they will be included
> > in Zend Engine 2), we use an underscore in front of the variable name to
> > tell people that are using PEAR code that the variable is a private one
> > and shouldn't be accessed from outside of the PEAR classes.
> >
> > So there is nothing magical around the underscores, it's just to make
> > the life of programmers more comfortable.
>
> I understand all this. I'm not THAT thickheaded :-)
>
> I'll try one more time, and then we'll drop the subject, allright? We
> never will agree anway, I think...
>
Sorry Vincent: I feel kind of bad that, like, 7 people have said the
almost exact same thing regarding this message. We should do a better job
of reading previous replies!