[wp-hackers] function_exists - user woes

[Matt Mullenweg]

Carthik Sharma wrote:

> Important points : 
> "if you have to hack things in order to make the plugin work (which it
> seems like almost every plugin I've tried requires), then it ain't a
> plugin, it's a hack."
> "function_exists"

That's like saying "I bought these wireless speakers and put them in my 
room but then I threw away the transmitter and now the speakers don't 
work!" Function_exists() is not a valid solution to this problem for 
tag-based plugins because, as Alex demonstrated, it would put the ooo in 
oooogly. If anything what we can take from this is perhaps there should be 
a note on the plugins page about this.

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