On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 6:47 PM, Rowan Collins <rowan.coll...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm not sure what exactly is "ambiguous" or "might change" here. The > current text accurately describes what "protected" means in PHP, and in > many other languages: a property which may be accessed only within the > current class, classes inheriting from it, and classes from which it > inherits.
I think that what the note may be referring to is the fact that currently, a child class can access the protected members of another child class if this member was declared on the parent class. However, this is a bug as described on https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50892 which hasn't been fixed yet as the potential BC break makes it more suitable for a major version. Regards, Pedro
