[TYPO3-core] Adding visibility to methods and variables within t3lib_tcemain?

[Christian Kuhn]

On 06/15/2012 12:27 AM, Jigal van Hemert wrote:
>  They completely hide the available data
> members and methods (an IDE can not check if a variable or getter/setter
> is actually valid)

This is actually a bonus in this case: A method that we make protected, 
but is accessible with a compatibility layer through a magic method, 
should not be shown as API method in the IDE anyway. This way an IDE 
will hint developers that a used method does not exist anymore to the 
public. OTOH we can not rely on that, because IDE's could be changed to 
'understand' the meaning of __call() and friends and say 'oh, every 
method you are calling on this class is valid, because it has a magic 
__call method'.


>and it is not possible to pass data by reference.

That is a different problem and we need to check this from case to case. 
The vast majority of methods doesn't use parameters by reference anyway.


Regards
Christian