Hey André, This does indeed seem to cut into the traditional property accessors scope.
I'm no longer seeing a reason to have property accessors, since immutable state (and promotion thereof) is much more relevant to fight bugs and improve application performance and maintainability. Therefore, I would endorse re-visiting the RFC at https://wiki.php.net/rfc/write_once_properties instead. Máté also linked today ( https://twitter.com/kocsismate90/status/1277625002720968704) that C# 9.0 is getting init-only properties, which looks similar to the RFC linked above. Assuming we solve annoyances around cloning, that would be a more sensible way forward, while property accessors seem to perpetuate the bad practice of getters and setters, which are the main cause for me having to fire up a debugger in any environment. Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/ On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 11:42 AM André Rømcke <andre.rom...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good morning Internals, > > I'd like to start discussion on a new RFC proposing a way to be able to > (optionally) specify property > write visibility, separate from read: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/property_write_visibility > > This enables readonly, write-only and immutable like semantics for PHP's > properties. > > These are the common use cases where users tend to resort to magic methods > or setter/getter > methods. This proposal will as such avoid unnecessary boilerplate, makes > coding easier and more > ergonomic, and in the case of magic method usage improve performance. > > > Best, > André Rømcke >
