On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> wrote: > > On 24 Sep 2014, at 20:39, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > >>> I also wonder why we still need them. Doing what has been done with gmp >>> for all resources would be a good move for 7. >> >> In general, I think we do not - IIRC everything resources do objects can >> do better now, and the problems that prevented one from using objects >> instead of resources are long gone. >> >> However, is_resource() checks and lots of third-party extensions using >> resources may be a bit of a problem for eliminating them. > > I already figured out how to solve the `is_resource()` issue. Create an > almost-useless, uninstantiatable class called Resource which any new > resource-replacing classes inherit from. Then, make `is_resource()` check > whether something is an instance of that class. > > Of course, 3rd-party extensions are still a problem, but this should mostly > fix it. Of course, gettype() is still going to return “object” not > “resource”, but I suspect people are more likely to use is_resource().
Is it really necessary? I could imagine a transition with 5.7 for that, similar to gmp. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
