#49629 [Bgs]: Regression in 5.2 caused by #44144

ID: 49629 User updated by: romain dot dorgueil at symfony-project dot com Reported By: romain dot dorgueil at symfony-project dot com Status: Bogus Bug Type: *General Issues Operating System: linux 2.6.18-4-vserver-686 PHP Version: 5.2.11 New Comment: exactly what I meant. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-09-22 19:29:04] jani@php.net Changing it again would be rather idiotic. It's done, live with it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-09-22 17:40:51] romain dot dorgueil at symfony-project dot com Description: ------------ In #44144, it was said "spl_autoload_functions() should return object instances, not class names, when appropriate." "should" and "when appropriate" seems a bit hazardous, to speak about a feature that has been working some way until 5.2.10 After a discussion with Pierre, he summed it up well as : <Pierre> that's a very bad idea and break BC for a behavior that has existed for a good dozen releases I understand that maybe we want it to behave somehow else in future versions, but I'm not sure minor releases of php 5.2 are the best place for it. I will understand very well if this ticket is closed as invalid or wontfix (as the damage is already done, it's for sure a good idea not to change again in .12), but I wanted to report it to show how a so little BC change can affect some projects. Reproduce code: --------------- <?php class Foo { public function nonstaticMethod() {} } $foo = new Foo; spl_autoload_register(array($foo, 'nonstaticMethod')); $funcs = spl_autoload_functions(); print_r((int) is_object($func[0][0])); Expected result: ---------------- 0 Actual result: -------------- 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=49629&edit=1