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.
-- Tim Starling