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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Magic method visibility in PHP 5.3+
From: danielc@analysisandsolutions.com (Daniel Convissor)

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 05:55:49PM -0500, Ralph Schindler wrote:

> In PHP 5.3 snaps, it appears that magic methods __isset, __unset, __get, 
> __set must have a public visibility or the engine will trigger a 
> warning.  Why is this?  It works as expected in 5.x branches.

Because that's what the manual says it should do.  And there are 
technical reasons outlined by others here already.  Here is the internals 
discussion about getting things straight:
http://news.php.net/php.internals/36813

Thanks,

--Dan

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