Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:17772 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 91994 invoked by uid 1010); 10 Aug 2005 07:46:53 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 91979 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2005 07:46:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Aug 2005 07:46:53 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.18.24.66 host-212-18-24-66.customer.m-online.net Received: from ([212.18.24.66:4181] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 45/C3-24081-DE0B9F24 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 03:46:53 -0400 To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:46:49 +0200 Message-ID: <20050810094649.69a9e235.pierre@dotgeek.org> X-Newsreader: Sylpheed version 2.0.0beta6 (GTK+ 2.6.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 212.18.24.66 Subject: is_a, instanceof, conclusion From: pierre@dotgeek.org (Pierre-Alain Joye) Hello, As there is no way to find a solution to the two different vision (pedantic, non pedantic ;). I propose to do not deprecate is_a. It cannot hurt neither is_a (is_a uses instanceof too) or instanceof. The only cons for is_a is a little slow down, which is negligeable. Any objection? Regards, --Pierre