On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 12:36 PM Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi internals, > > When the constructor property promotion landed, the question of how it > interacts with attributes on promoted properties did not get fully > resolved. See https://wiki.php.net/rfc/constructor_promotion#attributes > for what the issue is. > > The behavior that landed was to apply the attribute is applied to both the > parameter and the property. However, this was with the understanding that > we may have to adjust the behavior later, in particular depending on how > the whole "attribute target validation" turns out. The way it is now, using > a property-only attribute on a promoted parameter may result in spurious > validation errors. > > I wanted to bring up this topic now to make sure it's not forgotten... I > still don't really know what the best behavior here is. > imho, we should pick the 80% use-case and advise to desugar the code if other behavior is desired. For me the 80% case is that the attribute only applies to the property, not to the parameter. > > Regards, > Nikita >
