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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: Making T_FUNCTION optional in method declarations
From: kalle@php.net (Kalle Sommer Nielsen)

Hi

2010/11/30 Patrick ALLAERT <patrickallaert@php.net>:
> With this patch, something looks inconsistent to me:
> Both properties and methods have a visibility
> (public|protected|private) and a keyword: "var" (T_VAR) and "function"
> (T_FUNCTION) respectively.
> However "private var $foo;" generates a fatal error but "private
> function foo(){}" not?

The "var" keyword is an alias of the "public" keyword for BC with
PHP4. So it would be illogically to declare a property both private
and public at the same time ;-)



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regards,

Kalle Sommer Nielsen
kalle@php.net