Error warning change idea. Was: Don't silence fatal errors

On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 09:59, Michał Brzuchalski <michal@brzuchalski.com> wrote: > > I don't really know if it fits here but some weeks ago I was thinking about > annotations with "@" prefix >.... > > Which might work as supress all errors except fatal errors. > > Does that sound like a solution at all? > The developer then has full controll on what errors are suppressed or not.. I was thinking along similar lines a while ago: https://gist.github.com/Danack/5ae0b1b1ce30a0d785dd The reason I never formally suggested it as an RFC is that I think it's doubling down on the wrong solution. The vast majority of places where errors/warning are used currently, could either be just removed or have the result of the function be changed to be a tuple of the current result, and an error flag/message. [$result, $error] = foo($bar); if ($error !== null) { // something went wrong. } // $result is usable cheers Dan