Re: PHP 5.3.8 Released!
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Stas Malyshev <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 8/24/11 10:56 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> What are you talking about? The change is exactly about that, change the
>> behavior when a string is passed.
>
> Code relying on passing string to is_a is buggy, since it is clearly
> documented as accepting object. That's what I am talking about. If your code
> relies on that, it has a bug, fix it.
As it was working perfectly fine until now, it was perfectly fine to
use is_a only to valid possible instances of a given class, passing a
non object returned false, which was totally correct (per se).
Now call that a bug, fine, but it is a breakage in a patch release.
>> We are back to the discussion about undeprecating is_a, from scratch...
>
> No we're not. It is not deprecated, nobody proposes to deprecate it - how
> we're back?
About why it should not suddenly changes this working perfectly fine
before. And about not calling autoload.
Arguments have been given, by many and in all possible ways. I do not
see a consensus coming out (while Zeev just realized what we are
talking about when we say 'breakage'). I propose to go for a vote to
see what we should do with this fix in the 5.3 branch.
--
Pierre
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