Re: towards the next 5.3 release

From:	Rob Richards	Date:	Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:27:34 +0000
Subject:	Re: towards the next 5.3 release
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Sebastian Bergmann wrote:

Rob Richards wrote:
The addition in 5.2.6 was a BC break and is fixed in 5.2.9
    
Removing the type-hint is only a short-term fix, IMHO. A better solution would be to introduce a marker interface that is implemented by the respective classes of the XML extensions involved and use said interface in the type hint. If that's the route this is going to go, I'd rather be able to set an anytype hint where the developer could possibly restrict this further with a more specific type if they extend the class.

Rob