Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3.8 Released!

2011-08-24 Thread a...@akbkhome.com
It did not like my search for is_a ;) - I guess it's too short. On Thursday, August 25, 2011 11:59 AM, Ronald Chmara wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:51 PM, a...@akbkhome.com wrote: BTW. we could really do with a searchable archive of php.dev + internals... - It's pretty difficult t

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3.8 Released!

2011-08-24 Thread a...@akbkhome.com
I'm not sure it's possible to get agreement on if this is a bug or not, you might see a bug, I just see this as a pointless change for consistency that pretty much nobody will ever need or use. I think I'll leave it as a) no bug was ever reported on the previous behaviour. b) intended "design"

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3.8 Released!

2011-08-24 Thread a...@akbkhome.com
" If it's a clear bug, which IMHO this is_a() issue was - then unless we're looking at code breakage at massive scale, it should be fixed. " mmh.. how much breakage did you want. PEAR::isError is basically is_a($input, 'PEAR_Error'); it's been like that for > 8 years google search for PE

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3.8 Released!

2011-08-24 Thread a...@akbkhome.com
ase it's not clear, a situation where is_a("bar", "foo") returns FALSE, even though bar extends foo, but bar simply doesn't happen to be loaded in memory at the time of the call - can lead to very real world bugs. Zeev -Original Message- From: a...

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3.8 Released!

2011-08-24 Thread a...@akbkhome.com
ut breaking any code. Regards Alan On Wednesday, August 24, 2011 03:44 PM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:57 AM, a...@akbkhome.com wrote: It might have been better to have waited for the is_a() fix to get sorted out.. - It's a very annoying BC break (changes the document

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3.8 Released!

2011-08-23 Thread a...@akbkhome.com
It might have been better to have waited for the is_a() fix to get sorted out.. - It's a very annoying BC break (changes the documented behaviour), and now it means we need 4.3.9 in a few more days. Let me know if you need help testing / applying etc.. Regards Alan On Wednesday, August 24, 20