It's the only way to distinguish between set and unset properties. Also the only way to get all properties from an instance of an inheritance tree. Also, it's covered by tests that were explicitly added to prevent regressions on this.
Same as all similar discussions before this one: need an alternative way to do things before proposing a BC break. On 15 Mar 2017 11:27 p.m., "Kalle Sommer Nielsen" <ka...@php.net> wrote: > Hi > > 2017-03-15 21:41 GMT+01:00 Marco Pivetta <ocram...@gmail.com>: > > This is a BC break due to the fact that the `(array)` cast is used to > > extract property information from private properties in library code. > > Yep, but then again that is more of an > undocumented-not-really-supported case afair, if anything then > Reflection should have the APIs to officially allow that, although I > am still skeptic of this. > > > -- > regards, > > Kalle Sommer Nielsen > ka...@php.net >
