Hello Michael,

thanks for thecomment. The problem is not renaming the interface. The
problem is that typically there are already a lot of examples and tests
when such a patch gets applied.

regards
marcus

Tuesday, November 25, 2003, 4:09:17 PM, you wrote:

> Well, I can live with any of those names :) Didn't realize either, that 
> it would be that much of a deal to rename an interface ;) I wasn't 
> talking about is_a(), though, but of the general concept of using 
> inheritance for modelling "is a" relationships, hence the name 
> recommendation. Although, as said, I suppose ArrayAccess is okay as you 
> could say "implements".

> Marcus Boerger wrote:
>> Hello Michael,
>> 
>> Tuesday, November 25, 2003, 6:57:30 AM, you wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>And how about calling it Indexable, or something that can be used in a 
>>>"is a" sentence? As in, you could say "MyArray is an Indexable", but 
>>>"MyArray is an ArrayAccess" sounds just wrong ;)
>> 
>> 
>> is_a() is deprecated use instanceof now and that works with any class name.
>> (We are not SQL here) Besides that the patch took about half a year of
>> writing, discussion and planning and i was hoping we finally chose good
>> names. Can you live with them?
>> 




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