RE: [PHP] Zend IDE vs. PhpEd
| From: | Lumpkin, Buddy | Date: | Wed, 08 Jan 2003 18:11:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Zend IDE vs. PhpEd | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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I thought autocompletion would help you _avoid_ silly mistakes. For example,
defining $varName then trying to use $varname when you really meant to use
$varName.
In php I would say it's a tossup because if you reference a variable that doesn't exist it
will contain a NULL or FALSE value but php will not warn you. But in something like C I would have
to agree that autocompletion can lead to much more difficult problems to track down. Because in C,
if you never assign the variable the compiler (depending on the compiler of course) will warn you.
If you accidentially assign a subtilly different variable that can be hard to track down, and the
compiler will only warn you if it's a different datatype.
--Buddy