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