private properties problem

Today I discovered a possible serious problem with the way the latest PHP versions handle private properties. Given the following code: <?php class Base { private $var1 = 0; } class FinalClass extends Base { function Test() {

       $this->var1 = 10;

} } $c = new FinalClass(); $c->Test(); print_r( $c ); ?> I get the following result: FinalClass Object ( [var1:private] => 0 [var1] => 10 ) Now... PHP should have displayed an error when I was trying to set a value to this private member from the parent class. No error message was displayed. It created a local member which holded the value 10. But when trying to access this value from the parent class, it is not there. I think PHP should notify of the problem but it is not doing so. I have my error reporting level on E_ALL. Any ideas? Pablo Godel