Re: RFC: Locked Classes

On 10/03/2019 18:56, Gabriel O wrote:

Isn’t unset() currently only way to remove reference? This part is hence very problematic.

Hm, that's an interesting case to consider, thanks! At the moment, the following code breaks the reference between $a->foo and $bar, but also deletes the entire property from the instance: class A { public $foo; } $a = new A; $a->foo =& $bar; unset($a->foo); var_dump($a->foo); # Notice: Undefined property: A::$foo This feels very peculiar to me: $foo clearly *is* a defined property, and I didn't want to over-ride the class definition, I just wanted to "reset" that property. We can chalk it up to "references are bad", but it is indeed problematic that there isn't an alternative way to say "breakReference($a->foo);" that doesn't have this side effect. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]