Re: Traits and Properties
| From: | Stefan Marr | Date: | Sun, 09 Jan 2011 16:23:40 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Traits and Properties | ||
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On 06 Jan 2011, at 15:33, Johannes Schlüter wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 14:38 +0100, Stefan Marr wrote:
>>
>> On of those things is that you actually use ReflectionClass to reflect
>> on a trait.
>> That is really an implementation detail, and should be changed to not
>> confuse anyone on a conceptional level. We should not expose that kind
>> of engine/implementation detail.
>
> This is the same with interfaces. What does class_exists('some_trait')
> do? - I assume that returns true too.
It does return false for interfaces, that should be consistent and return false for traits, too.
Best regards
Stefan
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