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I'm also not a php developer, but I agree. This seems like a huge footgun.

I've never been a fan of this kind of magic, and I wonder how other languages deal with this case.

Well in python I assume it would be equivalent of accessing:

  self.__dict__['property_name']

And if those PHP rules were in python you could just write:

  @property
  def property_name(self):
      return self.property_name

In actual python though, that would infinitely recurse.

Or if they could follow Godot syntax: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/scripting/g...

var milliseconds: int = 0

var seconds: int:

get:

  return milliseconds / 1000

 set(value):

  milliseconds = value * 1000

Lua has rawget() and rawset() to bypass the magic methods, which is used a lot inside/outside the metatables (objects with magic methods) to avoid magic loops I guess.

It might be a footgun, but it will be extremely obvious when it is triggered.

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