Re: Re: RC1, instanceof?

I am not stubborn. I just think this has close to 0 use in real-life (or you're doing some weird coding). In any case, for the one in a million case, I think Reflection is good enough. Andi At 08:40 AM 8/9/2005 +0200, Michael Wallner wrote:

Hi Andi Gutmans, you wrote: You are wrong because __autoload() *is* called and you can load the class on the-fly. The only problem is if the class does not exist in your code base, in which case, your application should blow up! No insult intended, but this is just stubborn. You want to hear a good reason/argument, so the reason is that there is no reason - now please read slowly and thouroughly - to *load* a class for checking an object to be of a specific class - just because of the simple reason that the checked object can not be of *that* class, because it doesn't exist. So what if the mentioned generic way is too "generic"? There could be a flag to let instanceof *not* die - a little less generic but more suited for the actual needs IMO. It may be too late for 5.1 but it's *never* "too late" for future considerations. Regards, -- Michael - < mike(@)php.net >