Re: Behavior of classes type hinting together with the error handler

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Андрей Клюев <kluev.andrew@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello internals! My name is Andrew and I write php literally since > childhood (something around 10 years), > now PHP - is my profession. > And today once again debugging foreign code, I was ready to go to the > hospital to see a psychiatrist. > First, some of the code: > Do you think that can output this feature? > > function test(A $a) > { > var_dump(get_class($a)); > } > > I always thought that only 'string (1) "A"', I have never been so wrong > (c). > > The code below will display 'string (1) "B"' > > class A { > } > > class B { > public $id = 1; > } > > set_error_handler(function () { > return true; > }); > > function test(A $a) > { > var_dump(get_class($a)); > } > > test(new B()); > > I think this is very unexpected behavior, and suggest you to consider the > possibility of removing this behavior in PHP7. > It has already been dropped by https://wiki.php.net/rfc/engine_exceptions_for_php7 :) As a side node, an "A $a" typehint does not make sure that get_class($a) === 'A', only that $a instanceof A. Nikita