Re: PHP 5.3.8 Released!

From: Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:56:19 +0000
Subject: Re: PHP 5.3.8 Released!
Groups: php.internals 
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What are you talking about? The change is exactly about that, change the behavior when a string is
passed. 

We are back to the discussion about undeprecating is_a, from scratch...

It hurts codes and apps with 5.3, let do it in 5.4 only.

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From: "Stas Malyshev" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, Aug 24, 2011 19:00
Subject: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3.8 Released!
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>


Hi!

On 8/24/11 5:38 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> " 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....

So, PEAR has a bug, if it passes non-object argument to is_a, as 
previously is_a was only documented (and actually still is) as accepting 
objects. The fact that this bug remained for 8 years is very sad, but it 
doesn't cease to be a bug.

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