Re: Why is there no OPTION EXPLICIT equivalent?

You can put your error level up to show you when you try to use a varible that hasn't be initalised yet, I tend to do that to ensure good coding, and that I don't mistype varibles etc Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Arbon" <andy@andrewarbon.co.uk> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 8:11 PM Subject: [PHP] Why is there no OPTION EXPLICIT equivalent? > Hello, > > In general I find PHP great to work with, but the number one thing that > causes bugs for me is the fact that the interpreter doesn't throw an > error if I use an undeclared variable. > > I have looked and I can't find any information that suggests you can > make PHP force you to declare variables before use - does such a > facility exist? > > Assuming it doesn't, why is that the case? I can't be the only one who > has problems with this; are there any plans to add such a feature in the > future? It doesn't have to be compulsory, but a facility like VB's (not > that I like that language in general) Option Explicit statement would be > a great help. > > I know nothing about language design, but I can't see how this can be > more difficult to do than forcing static types, which it seems you can > do in PHP.. can anyone tell me the reasoning behind this? > > Hope the above doesn't sound too critical - in general I love PHP, but > this one omission has cost me so many hours of debugging time over the > years I had to ask :) > > Cheers, > > Andy > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >