On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Etienne Kneuss <col...@php.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Clint Priest <cpri...@zerocue.com> wrote:
>> I would bet, that at present, what you've put down is not allowed because I
>> purposely leveraged functions in this regard because all of the restrictions
>> put in place against functions would apply to accessors (because they are
>> functions). I would have to test it to be certain though.
>>
>> Because of Nikita's desire to not have underlying __getXX() functions
>> exposed in any way this may have to change. I had spent several hours
>> actually divorcing the created function from the Functions HashTable and
>> later realized I could simply enforce their non-existence at call time, this
>> has turned somewhat problematic for static accessors though.
>>
>> Also, your "should be valid" statement implies that you feel properties and
>> accessors are the same and they are not, internally. When a class attempts
>> to implement an interface a "function check" is done and since there is no
>> __getXX() function defined it would fail to implementation check against an
>> interface.
>>
>> I cannot stress enough that properties != accessors in any way except the
>> syntax in which they are used ($o->xyz) or ($o->xyz = 1), that is their
>> *only* similarity.
>
> I not saying accessors are properties. I'm saying that interfaces
> define usage contracts. And from the point of view of usage contacts:
>
> interface A {
> public $a {get; set; }
> }
>
> is entirely fulfilled by the class:
>
> class B extends A {
> public $a;
> }
>
> You can see a public property as an underlying private property with
> all usual public accessors defined.
>
> From the point of view of the user both should be interchangeable
> transparently.
I support this idea. Dart used this method before they removed
interfaces from the language altogether and it seemed to work well. Is
it completely obvious? No, it's not. I honestly don't think it
matters, though, because people who will use this will use interfaces.
As already mentioned, interfaces typically are not typically used in
PHP. The fact that it isn't 100% obvious is a non-issue in my opinon.
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