PHP 4.0 Bug #8294: Documented behavior of @ operator does not match actual behavior

From: zak@php.net Operating system: n/a PHP version: 4.0.3pl1 PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem Bug description: Documented behavior of @ operator does not match actual behavior The documentation states that the @ operator suppresses all errors. However, lines like: @ error_reporting E_ALL); still generate parse errors. I think that the current behavior is the right thing to do - AFAIK, there is no way to induce a parse error at runtime. Parse errors in the code that makes up the arguments for eval() and create_function() are caught and handled differently then normal parse errors (at least AFAICT they are - @ suppresses the errors generated in this fashion). The only real case that I can think of where you might have parse errors at runtime would be situations where you are dynamically including code from untested files -- if you are doing that though, then catching parse errors is probably the least of your worries. :) -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=8294&edit=1