I didn't realize that the Property Accessors Syntax RFC was voted down, 34 (yea) to 20 (nay). I'm curious to know why people objected to it. Magic methods are

I didn't realize that the Property Accessors Syntax RFC was voted down, 34 (yea) to 20 (nay). I'm curious to know why people objected to it. Magic methods are a horrible way to do get/set and writing separate getProperty/setProperty methods is pretty annoying also.