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Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:49:49 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: short and inner classes
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From: juris@glaive.pro (Juris Evertovskis)

On 2025-03-06 10:04, Tim Düsterhus wrote:

> - I don't understand the use of `private` properties. Given that the
> classes cannot have methods, they would be inaccessible, no?

I think the RFC was a bit unclear on this. Short classes can have 
methods. The short syntax just doesn't provide the ability to define 
them whilst defining the class.

But otherwise they are indistinguishable from normal classes and they 
can have methods by inheriting them or by using traits.

BR,
Juris