Hi Ilija, Larry, Heads-up: Larry and I would like to start the vote of the property > hooks RFC tomorrow: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/property-hooks >
I would make 3 changes to the RFC if I were in charge : - I'd make $this->propName inside a hook access the parent property via its hooks if any. I'd do this because that'd provide encapsulation-by-default for inheritance. Aka a parent class could reasonably expect its child classes to get through its hooks. (I'd be fine with only allowing the "=" operator on this.) - I'd keep the special $field value to access the backing value. It's a clear way to signify that accessing the raw value is possible only in hooks, never in other methods. - And I'd consider forbidding any method calls in hooks except static methods. This would allow factorising functional logic without opening for side-effects on the object outside of hooks themselves. I'm sharing this in case it rings a bell somewhere, but I can work with the peculiarities of the current RFC and I must admit I didn't spend as much time as you on the topic so my proposals might fall short, while yours to actually work. Thanks for that :) I'm in favor of the RFC. Cheers, Nicolas
