[PHP-DEV] dropping support for conditional class declartion

[Alan Knowles]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 >
As Derick said.

Previous Comments:
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[2004-01-02 05:56:39] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I don't think that anything is broken here. You just can't have a
conditional class definition (just like you can't instantiate a class
before it's declared anymore). 
Is there absolutely no way to keep this, apart from the example below, 
It will probably break a huge number of not amazingly well written 
scripts......

The code below is a nasty enough kludge to deal with overload method 
changes, but removing support for conditional classes makes it even 
worse.. - either an eval or include I guess........

if ( substr(phpversion(),0,1) == 5) {
    class DB_DataObject_Overload {
        function __call($method,$args) {
            $return = null;
            $this->_call($method,$args,$return);
            return $return;
        }
    }
} else {
    class DB_DataObject_Overload {
        function __call($method,$args,&$return) {
            return $this->_call($method,$args,$return);;
        }
    }
}

Regards
Alan
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