Re: Incompatibility to older versions again

> On an afterthought, I'm wondering if we should enforce good > habits with OO programming. One issue is direct access to > properties... in reality you shouldn't access an object > property directly, but through a method instead. Yes of course you are right. But I designed these object (with arrays of data as properties) as smarty had no syntax for accessing method. After your last CVS-Commit now it works, thanks, but I have another one :-(( {$obj->obj_array[index]->prop} (in sections) Still does not work. > We could just allow access to methods only, enforcing good OO > practice and simplifying Smarty. I suppose that could cause > an uproar though from already established OO property access. > Besides, Smarty doesn't abide by these rules itself. Example, > we set the template_dir directly instead of using something > like set_template_dir(). > > Did I open a can of worms? ;-) I think it it a good idea only allowing access to methods, but smarty should still have a compatibility-mode. Smarty is a gread engine and I think it already widly used. It is not very fair to exclude a group of user from upgrades ;-) Thanks, Rainer