Re: Changing default assertion mode to throw exceptions

Hi Levi I personally almost never use assert, and actually assumed it would throw an error, so this sounds like a good change! Have you done research on how this would affect the top-1000-ish popular packages like Nikita does? Kind regards Brent > On 20 Jul 2020, at 15:48, Levi Morrison via internals <internals@lists.php.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 11:37 AM Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> I'd like to change the default mode of assertion failures to throw. >> The current default is to warn. In my opinion this is a bad strategy: >> the engine asserted that something that is expected to be true is not, >> so executing further is a bad idea. This leaves throwing or bailing >> out. I think throwing an exception is better than bailing out, so >> that's what I propose. > > Hello, everyone. It's been a week and I have only heard a bit of > positive feedback and no pushback. Anyone else want to reply? > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php >