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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:44:33 -0700
To: Andrey Hristov <andrey@php.net>,internals@lists.php.net
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] interface_exists()
From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans)
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Applying right now. Thanks.

Andi

At 12:09 AM 8/25/2004 +0000, Andrey Hristov wrote:
>  Hi,
>today I saw a note left by a person in the documentation on php.net
>about the lack of function named interface_exists(). Currently there is
>class_exists() which returns true always when the name is a declared
>class or a known interface. However an interface is not a class, some
>will say that it is a pure abstract class - that's true but the name is 
>different
>and we already have abstract classes. In addition classes and interfaces
>are differentiated by get_declared_classes() and get_declared_interfaces().
>There is a small BC in the case since the patch also makes class_exists()
>to return false when the name is a name of a known interface. We are
>only 2 months from 5.0.0 and this fix inconsitency. The patch is agains 
>5.1.0-dev
>but can be easily used against 5.0.2-dev .
>   I will be very happy if it will be accepted and someone with karma 
> commits it.
>
>The patch is here :
>http://hristov.com/andrey/projects/php_stuff/patches/interface_exists.patch.txt
>
>Thanks,
>Andrey
>
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