RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3.8 Released!

> -----Original Message----- > From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre.php@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 11:31 AM > To: alan@akbkhome.com > Cc: Stas Malyshev; internals@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3.8 Released! > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:51 AM, alan@akbkhome.com > <alan@akbkhome.com> wrote: > > > BTW. we could really do with a searchable archive of php.dev + internals... > > - It's pretty difficult to find out if this was ever discussed before.. > > Again, it was discussed already and the argument of using instanceof was used > to deprecate is_a (along other arguments). I see no point to argue again about > that. It was a mistake to change it again in 5.3, Zeev realized the use in this > exact case, let move on now. Revert that in 5.3 and do it only in 5.4. Just so that my position is clear on the matter: - I still think that is_a() is working properly the way it does now, after the change. - I think the code in isError() is wrong, and should be fixed. - Had we (the collective we) known that fixing is_a() would result in such breakage, it would have probably been wise not to fix it in 5.3.x, and wait for 5.4 for this purpose. - Given that we've already done it - I wouldn't revert it. Fix it in PEAR. That's the only way to create something that works across all versions of 5.3.x. Zeev