PHP 8.4 Asymmetric Visibility: 5 Patterns That Replace Constructors and Setters

PHP 8.4's public(set) and protected(set) collapse 20 lines of boilerplate into one property. Five patterns most teams will miss.

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PHP 8.4 shipped asymmetric visibility in November 2024, and most teams that picked it up used it for exactly one thing: skipping the getter. That's the obvious case. There are four better ones.

PHP 8.4 Asymmetric Visibility: 5 Patterns That Replace Constructors and Setters

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