The property is most likely private and you don’t have to bother about it anyway.
But yes, for pure PHP users it might seems confusing since PHP variables have no types. If you are familiar with types and operator overloading than it is more readable IMO I assign the new price 29.99 to the variable $price What’s wrong with that? Is quite straight forward no? $price->setPrice(29.99); is straight forward as well IMO but your eyes need to read more than := Yet, as I said, it is a small benefit and without overloading of + - almost negligible. With + - etc. it would be possible to do things like $price += 1.50; $price *= 2; Etc. IMO better readable than $price->add(1.50); $price->multiplyBy(2); Cheers Von: Peter Lind [mailto:peter.e.l...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 26. Juni 2013 14:00 An: Robert Stoll Cc: Richard Quadling; Tom Oram; PHP internals Betreff: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC Proposal: New assign value operator On 26 June 2013 13:54, Robert Stoll <rst...@tutteli.ch> wrote: As far as I see it, it is kind of an operator overload mechanism for the assign operator. This can be useful for small utility classes such as Money, Email etc. An example was given: $price = new MoneyValue(); $price := 29.99; Instead of writing something like: $price = new MoneyValue(); $price->setPrice(29.99); The benefit is small, but can lead to better readable code. Better readable code? It looks like you're reassigning $price, not assigning to a property of $price. If anything it is less readable and will lead to countless WTF moments. Just my immediate thoughts on seeing the examples. Regards Peter -- <hype> WWW: plphp.dk / plind.dk CV: careers.stackoverflow.com/peterlind LinkedIn: plind Twitter: kafe15 </hype>
