On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Pierre-Alain Joye wrote: > > This technique is already frequently used to cope with lazy > > loaded code, which even with cached code compilers, is pretty > > damn efficient in a scripted language (less IO operations, less > > parsing, less memory...) > > > > It is not about the fact we 'can' load the class, but that we dont > > 'want' to load the class.. - it's a waste of resources, memory, > > cpu etc. just for the sake of CS perfection.. > > > > Last time I looked PHP was about getting thing done efficiently, > > not about giving your university professor a woody... ;) > > That's my point. The autoload magic (crap? :)) is not in cause here. > If you _test_ something, you do not expect the test operator to > abort your execution (fatal error).
But you're testing for something that you *know* that can not exist in your code base. That is a broken test, so it should throw a fatal error. Derick -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
