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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:28:39 -0400
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Subject: Late defined classes
From: ptarjan@yahoo-inc.com (Paul Tarjan)

Hi all,

This works (albeit with an abstract class error):

---
class Result implements Countable { }
$result = new Result();
---

Switching their order:

---
$result = new Result();
class Result implements Countable { }
---

gives : 

---
Fatal error: Class 'Result' not found in /tmp/not_defined.php on line 2
---

If I remove the interface, everything is peachy:

---
$result = new Result();
class Result { }
---

So as a user of PHP I was quite surprised that a class with an interface
must be in the code flow to be defined.

Is there anything (easy) that we can do to support this case?

Thanks
Paul