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cloning: visibility applies to all properties, readonly is orthogonal #5854

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9 changes: 5 additions & 4 deletions language/oop5/cloning.xml
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Expand Up @@ -168,10 +168,11 @@ echo (clone $dateTime)->format('Y');
<simpara>
The overrides are applied after
<link linkend="object.clone">__clone()</link> has run, and they honour the
visibility of the properties: a
<link linkend="language.oop5.properties.readonly-properties">readonly</link>
property can only be overridden from a scope that is allowed to write it,
which makes the function suited to methods returning a modified copy.
visibility of all properties.
<link linkend="language.oop5.properties.readonly-properties">Readonly</link>
properties can be updated on the copy even if they were already set on the
original object, which makes the function suited to methods returning a
modified copy.
</simpara>

<example>
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