new phpruntests and the use of private

From: Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:37:28 +0000
Subject: new phpruntests and the use of private
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Hi, I'd like to formally suggest that private not be used in the source code of phpruntests, and protected be the exclusive encapsulation PPP thing used. Why? In my limited experimentation with extending the --FILE-- handler to function differently, it was impossible to do without cut/pasting some code in private blocks into a new subclass. The use of "private" on variables and methods severely limits its future flexibility, and using "protected" would not reduce any of the benefits gained by encapsulation. This one is pretty easy to do, just s/ private / protected / :) Greg

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