@Ocramius the use case is on https://github.com/zendframework/zf2/commit/9c4d5df3c9fa7ba6da70b2956a134ab06641d44b that we already have <code>getRequest()</code> and <code>getResponse()</code> function, but use <code>$this->request</code> and <code>$this->response</code> directly.