Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:55843 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 23999 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2011 13:22:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Oct 2011 13:22:47 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=jbondc@openmv.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=jbondc@openmv.com; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain openmv.com from 64.15.152.204 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: jbondc@openmv.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.15.152.204 mail.ca.gdesolutions.com Received: from [64.15.152.204] ([64.15.152.204:50492] helo=mail.ca.gdesolutions.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id CB/F4-27630-62C2C9E4 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:22:46 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ca.gdesolutions.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95D4D5D16; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:22:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gdesolutions.com Received: from mail.ca.gdesolutions.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.ca.gdesolutions.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fA9fhitIrqMa; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:22:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from djbondc (modemcable166.116-70-69.static.videotron.ca [69.70.116.166]) by mail.ca.gdesolutions.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 876085D68; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:22:36 -0400 (EDT) To: "'Stas Malyshev'" , "'Pierre Joye'" Cc: "'Rasmus Lerdorf'" , "'Alan Knowles'" , References: <4E969596.4090704@akbkhome.com> <4E970257.2010906@sugarcrm.com> <4E977A4B.4020609@akbkhome.com> <4E977D07.4010503@lerdorf.com> <4E9A1E93.6050804@sugarcrm.com> <4E9B2D02.2080206@sugarcrm.com> <4E9B61EC.3090604@sugarcrm.com> In-Reply-To: <4E9B61EC.3090604@sugarcrm.com> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:22:33 -0400 Message-ID: <008101cc8ccf$d6dc9140$8495b3c0$@com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: AcyMV46jHC01VMtAS1ia616mlCWR1wAd3JGQ Content-Language: en-ca Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] is_a fix for 5.4 and HEAD From: jbondc@openmv.com ("Jonathan Bond-Caron") On Sun Oct 16 06:59 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > It definitely makes PHP worse by propagating inconsistent APIs. I created a patch against 5.4: https://bugs.php.net/patch-display.php?bug_id=55475&patch=is_a_5.4_alternati ve&revision=latest The patch changes the behavior to: is_a("ab", "b") // false is_a("ab", "b", true) // autoload "ab", autoload "b" -- false is_subclass_of("ab", "b") // false is_subclass_of("ab", "b", true) // autoload "ab", autoload "b" -- false Both class names can be "autoloaded" but not by default Thoughts?