At 10:49 AM 8/11/2005 +0200, Michael Wallner wrote:
Hi Andi Gutmans, you wrote:
> I don't mind undeprecating it while I continue to digest the whole
> instanceof thread and look at real-world examples...
After all I think there's more hidden behind than just
your argument about the generic way...? Why are you
defending this broken bridge that hard?
Nothing hidden. I just don't think it's broken. I don't think it'll be
terrible to change and I will look into it (actually already have).
I do think that people here missed the point though. If your code really
requires this functionality then I think there's a problem in most cases. I
think for most people in favor it was more a philosophical argument then
one backed with massive real world usage...
About PEAR, I don't know the code and excuse me if I don't trust your stats :)
Andi
You're saying that PHP shouldn't be that dynamic regarding
this issue, so why does it try do dynamically load a class
within instanceof (which is needless *in every case* anyway)?
I think PEAR qualifies as a "real-world" example and there
is_a() is used about 680 times, now if that would be
instanceof and we assume 10% to check for a non-existing
class, it'd bail out at about 70 instances.
Regards,
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Michael - < mike(@)php.net >
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