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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: C-sharp style property get/set syntax for PHP
From: keisial@gmail.com ("=?UTF-8?B?w4FuZ2VsIEdvbnrDoWxleg==?=")

Richard Quadling wrote:
> As for reading $seconds directly ...
>
> Well.
>
> If you think of the element that follows read as $this->xxxx, then if
> the parser can handle both ...
>
> read $seconds
> read getSeconds
>
> then yes for both.
>
> If not, then I'd guess that the getSeconds version should be the one
> we use as the value may not actually exist without some processing.
>
> Richard.

If it begins with $, it's a variable name, so map to that class member
variable. If it is instead a plain T_STRING, take that as a member call.

I'm not sure to be understanding the issue you're mentioning.