class Person(age:Int) { def grow() = { age += 1 } }I find it handy, as I always use private properties which are the target of dependency injection, in particular constructor injection.
Here's how to emulate this functionality in PHP, with great hacks. I post this code here so it won't be lost in the interwebs.
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The idea is quite nice, but I'd prefer to see that function placed as a static method, thus usable with inheritance and with the new coming threats :D
As much as I like this if it were a language construct, implementing it like this feels too hackish for me... Than again, I prefer explicit over magic. Perhaps it's just my taste...
I doubt that all casual readers will understand why this is necessary in some cases - why it isn't always possible to simply set $this->first in the constructor. It would be helpful to many if you posted a brief explanation - the example you posted could simply set $this->first from the constructor, so it doesn't demonstrate when/why you would need this.
I also find that a bit too hackish. I mean it saves you a bit of code you'd need to write but I would rather write it than introduce this magic, which might not be clear to everyone reading my code.
Although I always try to not use Reflection as that can get very costly when instanciating a lot of objects that way.
But having that as a language construct would be very cool like it's in Scala :)
It's not intended for real world usage, and never *required*.
I had to use reflection because when outsourcing the code from the constructor, private fields become not visible. I would prefer it as a language feature like Marijn and Dominik said.
The only usage for this code is quick experimentation (call it pretotyping): not having to patch the PHP core to see if the feature comes handy or it's horrible.
For simple DTO's I use this approach:
class MyDto extends ArrayObject
{
public function __construct($id, $name)
{
parent::__construct(compact('id', 'name'));
}
}
This has some benefits and is simple. But of course the properties are public. Its just a tradeoff...
I too use ArrayObject as a low-cost DTO, there's usually no problem with public properties on them.
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