Hi everyone,

until now there was no way on ReflectionProperty to easily find out if a
value has a default value and what that default value is. Essentially the
way was indirectly through ReflectionClass::getDefaultProperties().

In combination with typed properties and Reflection use cases (for code
generation for example) it is interesting to know when a property has no
default value, because accessing it through
ReflectionProperty::getValue($object) would otherwise throw a "property
unitialized" error.

I have added a PR adding these two functions and looking for more feedback
from interested parties:

https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/5071

This addition is small so that I believe an RFC is not necessary, given
that it is more "missing functionality" that should have been there before

greetings
Benjamin

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