Re: Deprecation ideas for PHP 8
| From: | Girgias | Date: | Tue, 22 Jan 2019 21:22:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Deprecation ideas for PHP 8 | ||
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On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 21:48, Stephen Reay <php-lists@koalephant.com> wrote:
>
> > On 23 Jan 2019, at 03:34, Girgias <george.banyard@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Classes/Objects functions:
> >
> > - is_a (use instanceof operator)
> > - is_subclass_of (not exactly what it's purpose is but the instanceof
> > operator SHOULD be a valid equivalence with another condition if the
> same
> > class must not be used)
>
> is_subclass_of allows checking string class names, instanceof (AFAIK) does
> not.
>
Good catch, just checked and it's indead the case that instanceof can't
check string class names:
https://3v4l.org/DkMC4
George P. Banyard