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Static Properties With Asymmetric Visibility
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		Static Properties With Asymmetric Visibility: Asymmetric visibility was introduced in version 8.
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Asymmetric visibility was introduced in version 8.4. In that version, the asymmetric visibility was limited to non-static properties. In PHP 8.5, that feature is now extended to static properties.

PHP code
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.. code-block:: php

   <?php
   
   class x {
       public private(set) static int $a = 3;
   }
   
   ?>

Before
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.. code-block:: output

   PHP Fatal error:  Static property may not have asymmetric visibility
   
   Fatal error: Static property may not have asymmetric visibility
   

After
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PHP version change
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This behavior changed in 8.5-


Error Messages
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  + `Static property may not have asymmetric visibility <https://php-errors.readthedocs.io/en/latest/messages/static-property-may-not-have-asymmetric-visibility.html>`_