On Tue, Mar 12, 2024, at 8:49 AM, Stephen Reay wrote:
> Hi Larry
>
> Thanks again for both of your work on this, I'm really hopeful this passes.
>
> Was there ever any further discussion/resolution/decision about the use
> an explicit `virtual` keyword, and the related flag for creation of a
> backing store? I thought it was discussed by several people but I don't
> recall seeing any eventual consensus, and it looks to my eye that it
> hasn't changed from the original proposal: i.e. it's 'magic' and
> `$this->{__PROPERTY__}` won't work?
>
> Is that correct?
We looked into `virtual`, and considered it, but determined that it wouldn't
actually work because of inheritance. Details are in a new FAQ entry:
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/property-hooks#why_no_explicit_virtual_flag
--Larry Garfield
