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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC Discussion] Typed Properties
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Wed, 2016-03-16 at 12:36 -0400, Phil Sturgeon wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have completed the draft for an RFC, to add Typed Properties. The
> patch has been written by the one and only Joe Watkins.
> 
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/typed-properties

I'm no fan of all this typing business, but that's a lost case. Anyways:
What about references? (yeah, references should die, but currently they
still exist)

What's expected here:

class A {
  public int $i;
}

$a = new A();
$r = &$a->i;
$r = "foobar";

johannes