What about private final set($value) { } tells you that it's read only?  There 
is a setter.

From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre....@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 12:05 AM
To: Clint Priest
Cc: PHP internals; Jazzer Dane
Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Propety Accessors v1.1


On Oct 11, 2012 5:00 AM, "Clint Priest" 
<cpri...@zerocue.com<mailto:cpri...@zerocue.com>> wrote:
>
> Why is everyone so dead set against read-only and write-only?
>
> I could not disagree more with you on what is "pretty" and "readable".
>
> To me:
>
> public read-only $hours {
>                 get { ... }
> }
>
> Is infinitely more readable and understandable than:
>
> public $hours {
>                 get() { ... }
>                 private final set($value) { ... }
> }

Fully agreed. It is obvious and clear like water.

Cheers,
Pierre

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