Re: Comments on bugs marked bogus

I think autoload will be fixed to allow failure - It's a known bug of the autoload implementation .... Saying that though, using Case sensitive names in is_a(), is a rather trivial change.. Regards Alan On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 22:39 +0400, Alexey Borzov wrote: > Hi, > > Justin Patrin wrote: > >>If a comment is made on a bug flagged bogus, do the developers get a > >>message? I added a comment to bug > >>http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=3197 but I am not > >>sure if anyone > >>will see it. Do I need to re-open the bug first? > > > > Yes, they should see the message even if the bug us set bogus. It > > simply sounds like the maintainer doesn't want to make the change > > although he gives no real reasons for it. I've added a comment fo my > > own as well. > > The maintainer has his reasons. __autoload() from his point of view is bad > voodoo very much like the infamous "magic quotes". It also shouldn't be probably > > triggered by using is_a() function which is deprecated (!) in PHP5. So if > someone is bent on using __autoload() Black Magick he should take necessary > precautions. Like only __autoload() his own classes and not touch PEAR's *at > all* (none of them requires __autoload()!). If someone is too lazy to properly > code his functions and understand the consequences, I have *no* sympathy for them. >