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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 22:03:56 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Closure::call() to access private data, really ?
From: ocramius@gmail.com (Marco Pivetta)

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On 17 April 2015 at 18:43, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote:

> For the record this isn't exclusive to Closure::call, afaik the same thing
> is possible with Closure::bind() since 5.4
> http://3v4l.org/hlFS4
> And there are/were a decent amount of discussion (and AFAIR even hydrate
> libraries using this trick) about this, for example:
>
> http://ocramius.github.io/blog/accessing-private-php-class-members-without-reflection/
>

Also note that this is the only way to access private properties by-ref
(yes, I do need that for my horrible use-cases. No, don't ask about it.)

Marco Pivetta

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