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Comment by shakesbeard | Hacker News Reader

The article clearly states that there are more features like a read-only keyword.

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/propertygetsetsyntax-as-implemented

That's not what he's referring to. He's specifically referring to a read-only that only affects external classes. So, the object itself could write to that field, but nothing else could.

You can set the visibility of both the properties and the getters/setters.

    class Foo {
        private $fuzz;
        
        protected $Bar {
            get { return $this->fuzz; }
            private set { $this->fuzz = $value; }
        }
    }

Yes. I understand that.

My point was just that he specifically wanted a read-only.

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