On Tue, 21 Jul 2015, Marco Pivetta wrote: > I should also add that this breaking change was introduced in a patch > release (5.5.8).
That wasn't good, but I don't see how it was a *breaking* change. It never worked before this change either. You now just told you're doing something inappropriate. > What has happened has happened, and I don't want to blame anyone, but > this is actually really broken :-\ It's not a check that can be easily removed though. As Nikita says, this all operate on internal structures. DateTimeInterface is meant so that both DateTime and DateTimeImmutable can be type hinted for, and not really for user land. Retrofitting PHP's DateTime stuff with user extended classes and implementations is not going to be a trivial thing. cheers, Derick -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
