Re: [ZEND-ENGINE-CVS] cvs: ZendEngine2 / zend_compile.c zend_compile.h zend_execute.c zend_language_parser.y zend_language_scanner.l zend_operators.c
zend_operators.h

On Sat, 03 Aug 2002, Andi Gutmans wrote: > >Don't you think we should have a unified way of testing for variable's > >type/class? I understand that we don't have type unification yet, but > >having a separate function for each basic type is kind of ugly too. > > I'd prefer "is" to be an OOP only construct. i.e. for anything other than > an object it'd return false. > Just some food for though before we finalize this. This operator will be a > reserved word. Are we sure we want "is" to be a reserved word? It might be > used quite a bit. I think it's fine to use is as reserved. Other languages (C# for example) uses 'is' for this purpose. By the way, if you don't like casting notation, Alan had an idea to use this one: $a is 'int' $a is 'Foo::Bar' Would that work? -Andrei http://www.gravitonic.com/ Complexity in the mind is not caused by learning; learning is caused by complexity in the mind. -- Steven Pinker