On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 1:33 PM Matthew Brown <matthewmatt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What if Java suddenly said that all properties are suddenly private, and >> can only be accessed through getter/setter methods? >> > > If Java announced that the next major version was to make the change after > 95% of userland developers favoured it and over 2/3rds of their internals > team did, I'd think "huh ok I guess they have good reasons". > > I call shenanigans on that 95% number. Can you please back that up? Personally, I don't think it's even possible to gauge userland support because the vast majority of userland developers aren't involved in the community at all. Those people don't even know this is being discussed, and probably won't until they start looking to upgrade to PHP 8. > For 20 years people have developed code based on that feature. It was >> never considered an error, and often not even considered bad practice > > > You seem to be arguing against *ever* changing something that a majority > once thought was good, and fundamental to a given system. Lots of things > fall into that category - restricting voting to men, segregation, etc. > >> -- Chase Peeler chasepee...@gmail.com
