On 15.08.2016 at 00:11, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > Also, there's a difference IMO between classes and class' properties. > Class details may be - indeed, need to be - hidden because this is what > the class is, one of it's reasons to exist - a tool to reduce complexity > by hiding irrelevant information and exposing only relevant information > as class' public API. You hide things not because you're afraid evil > users would abuse them - but as a service to the user to not overload > their mental models with irrelevant details and allow to deal with the > class by only considering the important things.
If it were only about suppressing unimportant details, documentation would suffice, e.g. /** @private */ or the leading underscore convention. I am, however, quite happy to have language support to catch *inadvertent* accesses. -- Christoph M. Becker -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
