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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:25:58 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Fix for #53727 (is_subclass_of resolution with interfaces)
From: dragoonis@gmail.com (Paul Dragoonis)

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:22 PM, David Z=FClke
<david.zuelke@bitextender.com> wrote:
> On 29.06.2011, at 22:20, Paul Dragoonis wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Ralph Schindler <ralph@smashlabs.com> w=
rote:
>>> Correct.
>>>
>>> I was hasty in that example, the first was copied & tested (and is refl=
ected
>>> in the test, as is that variation of what I wrote up.)
>>>
>>> Either way, test and patch work in 5_3.
>>
>> Doesn't this functionality confuse matters?
>>
>> If this patch is added, is there now no difference between instanceof
>> and is_subclass_of(). If this is the case my question is then why do
>> we have two methods to do the same thing?
>>
>> I thought instanceof was for parent classes + interfaces.. and
>> is_subclass_of() was just for parent classes.
>
> instanceof is a language construct and only operates on object instances.
>

I didn't spot you could pass a string into is_subclass_of() I thought
it was only objects. With that in mind it would be good to have
subclass_of() include interfaces.


> David
>
>
>