Hi Andi Gutmans, you wrote: > You are wrong because __autoload() *is* called and you can load the > class on the-fly. The only problem is if the class does not exist in > your code base, in which case, your application should blow up!
No insult intended, but this is just stubborn. You want to hear a good reason/argument, so the reason is that there is no reason - now please read slowly and thouroughly - to *load* a class for checking an object to be of a specific class - just because of the simple reason that the checked object can not be of *that* class, because it doesn't exist. So what if the mentioned generic way is too "generic"? There could be a flag to let instanceof *not* die - a little less generic but more suited for the actual needs IMO. It may be too late for 5.1 but it's *never* "too late" for future considerations. Regards, -- Michael - < mike(@)php.net >
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