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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:40:06 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Private member/method access inconsistency
From: davidc@php.net ("David Coallier")

> To me it looks like a large inconsistency in the way we invoke overloaded
> handlers for
> members vs. methods. I am not sure how it came to be this way, but it's
> probably something
> we should fix. We can either remove the call to __get() on private member
> access, or add
> call to __call() on private method invocation. The former approach presents
> more of a BC
> problem IMHO, so I am advocating the latter. I've attached a simple patch
> for consideration.
>

I'd say go ahead, this sounds like common sense to be consistent in
both methods and members.

-- 
Slan,
David