Dan Ackroyd wrote on 8/26/21 09:43: > On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 at 12:42, Björn Larsson via internals > <internals@lists.php.net> wrote: >> >> Den 2021-08-10 kl. 11:55, skrev Philip Hofstetter: >>> The following valid <= PHP 8.0 code that intends to make the $line property >>> public is a fatal error in 8.1 > .... >>> >>> For method return types, we have #[ReturnTypeWillChange], but for property >>> types 🤷♀️ > >> Hi, >> >> Has this been adressed / solved in some way and does it needs >> to be fixed? > > My understanding is that the two scenarios are not the same and that > there isn't much enthusiasm for 'fixing' it. > > For return types, the #[ReturnTypeWillChange] annotation is a > temporary work-around, and one that would be used by a lot of people. > It would only be used by a library until that library drops support > for older versions of PHP. > > For the exception case, the way that (for legacy reasons) PHP supports > having a public property in a child class that "overwrites" (mostly) > the protected property in the parent class, is a pretty hinkey thing > to do, and so this is likely to only affect a small number of people. > It's not obvious to me how long a bridging annotation would need to > hang around for, and it's really not obvious what the exact details of > how it would work would be. > > I'd suggest using a getter method, which would work on all relevant versions. > > cheers > Dan > Ack >
It's interesting to note that `$line` and `$file` both behave this way
in PHP 8.1, but `$code` and `$message` do not.
class Foo extends Exception
{
protected $code = 100;
protected $message = 'Hello';
protected $line = 45;
protected $file = '/path/to/file.php';
}
Cheers,
Ben
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