I've never heard this claim made, and it has been a long time since I've actually used PHP in any meaningful way. Care to expand on this?
I'd be interested in a comparison to Python's support for reflection, which is simple and pervasive.
I put it inside quotation marks because it's not the true-reflection API per se, but I believe it was a mistake to even bring that up, and to generalize by saying it's easier than 'any other language'.
I was talking about old methods like get_class_methods, get_class_vars, get_object_vars and $$.
Here's an example which I used to answer another user above:
$a = new A;
foreach(get_object_vars($a) as $name => $var) {
$a->$name = $a->$name + 1;
echo $a->$name . "\n";
}
To be honest, I just think it is fun. I can make things in PHP with five lines that would take me multiple pages in C#, but the opposite is true too, for other areas.