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Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 11:54:36 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Access property of object stored in a constant
From: larry@garfieldtech.com ("Larry Garfield")

On Sat, Aug 19, 2023, at 4:21 AM, Claude Pache wrote:

> At the time I filed https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/10497, I was 
> merely exploring the potential of the new ability to have an object in 
> a constant. The potential use I had back in my head was the following. 
> Currently, I store some settings in global constants. I was 
> contemplating replacing those by properties of a readonly object stored 
> in a global constant. (A fatal issue I discovered later in my journey 
> is that readonly properties can only be initialised by code inside the 
> class itself.)

As a tangent here, that has a workaround:

https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@crell/php-tricks-access-control-bypass

Which I make use of in Crell/Serde, which is then used by my own config library to produce exactly what you describe:

https://github.com/Crell/Config

--Larry Garfield