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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Asymmetric visibility
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Tommins)

On 07/08/2022 22:48, Larry Garfield wrote:
> Something like public private:set (colon instead of parens) would work just as well, if the () are confusing somehow, but that doesn't feel like a common problem.  And it would lose the parallelism with Swift.


I wonder if the reasoning for Swift's syntax choice is publicly 
available, or if there's anyone with inside knowledge we could ask. It 
would be good to know if there's a compelling argument the RFC could 
mention, or if it was actually chosen for reasons that don't apply to PHP.

Regards,

-- 
Rowan Tommins
[IMSoP]