Getters/Setters and parent getter/setter access

The RFC here: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/propertygetsetsyntax Talks about allowing a sub-class to access a parent getter via TimePeriod::$Milliseconds or possibly parent::$Milliseconds. Either of those methods (currently) tries to access a static property in the parent or defined class. It would probably break existing code if we tried to make the parent:: or TimePeriod:: syntax to access the parent accessor. Anyone have any suggestions on an alternative syntax? I'm sure I could change it so that parent:: or TimePeriod:: from within a getter/setter would cause it to access the parent getter/setter but that would create an inconsistency within the language. Ideas? -Clint