Lukas Smith wrote: > Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > >> I wonder what was the original purpose of PHP5 emitting warning when >> seeing 'var'? What are you basically saying now is "I want PHP4 code >> that wouldn't have messages on my class vars if run in PHP5". But I'm >> sure there was some idea behind these warnings, not? > > > There was a reason. So that people who mark things "var" because there > was no true PPP available will be notified that they are using > deprecated syntax. To quote Andi "It was meant to help people find var's > so that they can be explicit about the access modifiers." > > So to me it seems if I have no private/protected, but only public > properties I would like to be able to preempt a needless warning as I > migrade to PHP5. > > I dont agree however we should make protected and private simply behave > as var in PHP 4.x as this would indeed just undermine the entire point > of the E_STRICT warning.
Right. To me PHP4 OO code with explicit var declarations are public declarations, because that is what var means. I find most code I look at that has something that the developer might want to make private in PHP5 are not explicitly declared with var. Of course, I am not actually seeing this warning right now, so maybe this has gone away? Or what am I missing? error_reporting(E_ALL|E_STRICT); ini_set('display_errors',1); class foo { var $prop; function foo($arg) { $this->_private = $arg; $this->prop = $this->_private * 10; } } $a = new foo(14); echo $a->prop; I am not seeing an E_STRICT from this. -Rasmus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php