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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: C-sharp style property get/set syntax for PHP
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 19:31 -0500, president@basnetworks.net wrote:
> 
> isset() in the way you suggest would just be confusing.  It would
> allow is
> to say that a property does not exist, when in fact it does exist.
> This
> is not logical. 

Even when a property does exist physically (by these "methods") it might
not exist logically.

Missing that functionality is inconsistent with the languages. such an
inconsistency would be enough reason for a -1000 vote :-)

johannes