On 2010-11-29, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com> wrote:
> > Nice RFC, just an idea for an alternative syntax (added to the RFC as #2):
> >
> > property Hours {
> >     get { return $this->seconds / 3600; }
> >     set { $this->seconds = $value * 3600; } // The variable $value holds
> > the incoming value to be "set"
> > }
> >
> > class TimePeriod
> > {
> >      private $seconds;
> >
> >      public [Hours] $hours1;
> >      public {use Hours;} $hours2;
> > }
>
> If you change "property" to "class" or "trait" and "get" to "__get" you 
> need almost no new syntax :)

Not really. With __get() and __set(), it's entirely likely that the class into
which the trait is mixed in might override this already -- and not take into
account the properties. That would be quite a brittle solution.

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