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Subject: private_write/protected_write properties
From: info@adaniels.nl (Arnold Daniels)

Hi all,

I'll probably be lynched for bringing up this subject again, since it 
caused a long discussion a year ago. Anyway I look in the archives and 
there was never a real conclusion made, so I'm bringing it up again. 
This time for a feature I personally would like to see in PHP 6.

Very often I want to be able to be get a property publicly, while only 
being able to set it within the class. You can solve this by using a 
getPropery() method or by using __get($property), but this feels more 
like a workaround. I think the private/public state of properties is 
becoming more important now that using public frameworks is becoming 
main stream. Therefor I believe this would be a good addition.

Best regards,
Arnold