Re: Stop Exceptions capturing object references for trace arguments

Hi! > My only concern is if anyone is using this data for anything other than > debugging - e.g. if they were somehow extracting extra context about the > exception by traversing the backtrace to a particular point and grabbing > the arguments. That feels like a horrible hack to me, but that doesn't > mean someone isn't relying on it. Sure, that's why I propose to keep the option. If you use the horrible hack, I think it wouldn't be too much to ask to set an INI variable. Since it's rather local, it can be INI_ALL so you could do it in the script even. > An interesting side effect of an ini setting, though, is that it could > in turn be made to raise deprecation warnings at some point, whereas > just accessing the 'args' element of an array is pretty hard to detect. > So for instance, we could theoretically have: 7.3, add ini setting > defaulting to on; 7.4, change default to off and raise deprecation > notice if it's turned on; 8.0, remove feature, error if ini setting is > not set to on (ignore if set to off for smoother upgrades). Yep, sounds like a plan. Not sure if we need to drop it for 8.0 even, but we can vote on that. Anybody to make an RFC for this? :) -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com