Derick Rethans wrote:
class. The magic methods are responsibly for: - checking if the property actually "exists"
This is something I wouldn't encourage as one of the virtues of fully dynamic languages is the "lack" of checking this. Otherwise what happens if e.g. one inherits such a class to extend it? Does it have to know about the get/set methods and the necessary declaration of attributes?
And as far as "magic" fields are concerned: IMHO the currently available mechanism of checking the property name against a (possibly e.g. from a DB dynamically created) array in the object is sufficient.
So personally I'd not add a language feature as it adds complexity with little (or arguable) gain.
My $.02, - Chris -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
