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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: RC1, instanceof?
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Michael,

Monday, August 8, 2005, 6:26:30 PM, you wrote:

> Hi Pierre-Alain Joye, you wrote:

>> I can write a patch to "fix" it if we agree that the current
>> behavior is not correct.

> While you're at it, could you continue on fixing the following:
> (another evidence that the current "generic" behaviour is bad)

> try {
>         // anything
> } catch (NonExistantException $e) {
> }

> Fatal error: Class 'NonExistantException' not found

This is a very different topic. While "instanceof missingclass" can never
result to any problem the former violates hard coded requirements. Thus i
think dropping the message from instanceof is acceptable - but i am not
going to decide this so don't take my second thoughts on this one too
serious.

Best regards,
 Marcus