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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Pass Scope to Magic Accessors
From: tim@bastelstu.be (=?UTF-8?Q?Tim_D=c3=bcsterhus?=)

Hi

On 1/19/23 17:23, Nicolas Grekas wrote:
> Ilija and I would like to start a discussion about the following RFC:
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pass_scope_to_magic_accessors
> 
> When using magic methods to access actual properties, respecting their
> declared visibility is often desired. Yet, accessing the calling scope to
> emulate the visibility restrictions is unreasonably difficult at the
> moment. This RFC proposes to pass the calling scope to magic accessors to
> make it trivial to get it.
> 

Unless I missed anything, the RFC does not explain how the values that 
are passed into the second parameter will look like. What kinds of 
strings will be passed? When will the value be null?

Best regards
Tim Düsterhus