Hey Pedro,
On Fri, 25 Sept 2026 at 21:59, Pedro Veloso <[email protected]>
wrote:
> ```php
> class Ha {
> private int $a = 1;
>
> #[Pure]
> public function getA(): int {
> return $this->a;
> }
> }
>
> new Ha()->getA(); // Fatal error: pure method Ha::getA() accesses $this.
> ```
>
Overall, I would also like to see functional purity in PHP, but a n
instance method is just a function with an implicit additional `$this`
argument, and it is pure if it causes no state mutation.
Marco Pivetta
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https://ocramius.github.io/
