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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Allow arbitrary expressions when using instanceof operator
From: drgomesp@gmail.com (Daniel Ribeiro)

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On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:

> Perhaps, dare I say it, we should merge the constant and class namespaces
> in PHP7? Those are perhaps the least likely to conflict. It=E2=80=99d mea=
n we could
> handle instanceof expressions, and we wouldn=E2=80=99t need to use ::clas=
s.


Hi Andrea!

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "don't need to use ::class".
Currently, we can only use the class constant itself, like $foo instanceof
stdClass or a string representation of that class' name.

Concerning the parenthesis, I agree they shouldn't be treated differently,
but as for now they are.

Daniel Ribeiro
http://danielribeiro.org

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