On 04/05/2011 02:42 AM, Tim Starling wrote:
> On 04/05/2011 07:31 AM, Platonides wrote:
>> Having to create a reflection class and look for exceptions just to
>> check for class existance is really ugly.
>> However, looking at https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/issues/314 it
>> seems to be a declaration before use problem (even though class_exists
>> shouldn't be declaring it). I suppose that we could work around that by
>> including all classes at the beginning instead of using the AutoLoader,
>> which shouldn't be needed for compiled code.
>
> You can't include the class files for compiled classes, they all exist
> at startup and you get a redeclaration error if you try. I explained
> this in the documentation page on mediawiki.org which has now appeared.
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/HipHop
>
> The autoloader is not used. It doesn't matter where the class_exists()
> is. HipHop scans the entire codebase for class_exists() at compile
> time, and breaks any classes it finds, whether the or not the
> class_exists() is reachable.

These both really sound like bugs in HipHop.  I've no idea how hard it 
would be to fix them, but are we reporting them at least?

-- 
Ilmari Karonen

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