Hello Andi, Marcus, method_exists() is quite vital to help where the type hinting fail. Type hinting fail because it leads to a fatal error which is uncatchable and the code cannot react on this. Therefore, for me type hinting is kind of useless since I cannot catch my bugs by executing some code whenever the data passed is not what the function/method expects. Reflection API is overkill to write everywhere and has to be wrapped to something which at the end will simulate method_exists().
a) I was never talking about removing method_exists() due to BC.
b) If you want a function like this, and really can't live with reflection API (which is BS because you can write your own method_exists() in PHP), then we should pick a new naming similar to debug_*, mysql_* to put these functions in. I don't think we should keep on working against coding standards unless there's an exceptional reason.
c) We discussed this in the past and agreed to using reflection API so I don't understand where this commit is even coming from.
Andi
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