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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Alternative typehinting syntax for accessors
From: morrison.levi@gmail.com (Levi Morrison)

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote:
>>We should also consider how an author would allow type-hinted properties to accept NULL as a new value, in both proposals.
>
> public $foo {
>     get;
>     set(Foo $value = NULL) { $this->foo = $value; }
> }
>
> Would work for traditional type-hints.

I just realized that `unset` would actually have a use here. Rather
than setting something to `null` you would `unset` it.