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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 09:32:08 +0200
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Subject: Re: RC1, instanceof?
From: pierre@dotgeek.org (Pierre-Alain Joye)

On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 13:52:13 -0700
andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans) wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Another reminder, I'd like to roll RC1 on Monday. Everyone will
> be back from OSCON and we can start the Unicode merge right
> afterwards.

One thing I would like to solve in 5.1 is instanceof (or the
deprecation of is_a).

instanceof is useless much of the times as it raises a fatal error
as soon as the tested class does not exist. Since when tests raise
fatal error?

Sample script:
class test{}
$a = new test;
if ($a instanceof Foo) {
        echo "not foo";
}

result:
Fatal error: Class 'Foo' not found in /home/pierre/cvs/builds/
php_head/instanceof.php on line 4


I can write a patch to "fix" it if we agree that the current
behavior is not correct.

Regards,

--Pierre