Yeah you can take a look at internal functions/classes that operate
on objects and see whether the readonly semantics might need to work
in some of those cases.
Thanks for the offer!
At 02:59 PM 5/16/2006, Jason Garber wrote:
Hello Andi,
Your request for edge condition research is an excellent one. We've
just been through a hellish couple weeks of QA failures (at my
company) which just *underscore* your point. The last thing any of
us needs is a broken PHP.
That being said, is there anything I can do to help us find this
stuff out?
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006, 5:41:31 PM, you wrote:
AG> Where would readable be enforced? Would it try and prevent getting
AG> references to it? Are there any internal functions/classes which need
AG> fixing to honor readable?
AG> I think these answers would really be helpful.
AG> Thanks.
AG> Andi
AG> At 02:37 PM 5/16/2006, Marcus Boerger wrote:
>>Hello Andi,
>>
>> that is why most here already switched to "public readable".
>>
>>best regards
>>marcus
>>
>>Tuesday, May 16, 2006, 11:31:14 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> > I can't quite explain it but for me the ability to work-around
>> > private with methods which are able to access the private variable,
>> > is different than marking a property as read-only but it not being
>> > read-only in all semantics. Probably because private variables do
>> > often have getters and setters, whereas something which is marked as
>> > read-only (like a harddrive) tends to be read-only always.
>>
>> > Andi
>>
>> > At 02:08 PM 5/16/2006, Zeev Suraski wrote:
>> >>>However, the reason i write this mail is that you said there could be
>> >>>problems. Well this is deply integrated in the handlers and they don't
>> >>>let you out. In other words if this stuff is not working then the whole
>> >>>PHP 5+ object model is broken. Or in other words, if this is
broken alot
>> >>>of other stuff regarding object handling is already broken.
>> >>
>> >>You're probably right about this one. You can already return a
>> >>reference to a private variable today and change it. Andi - did you
>> >>mean something else?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Best regards,
>> Marcus
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