Re: [Strawpoll] Promoting redefining constant to exception

On 25/01/2022 19:44, Chase Peeler wrote:

If we start throwing exceptions, which can't be suppressed, it will make this much more difficult to read since the constants.php will have to be updated: if(!defined('dbserver')){ define('dbserver','productiondb.example.com'); } if(!defined('otherconstant')){

    define('otherconstants','foobar');

}

A wrapper function for this use case is entirely trivial: function define_if_not_defined($name, $value) {    if ( ! defined($name) ) {

       define($name, $value);

   } } Give it a short name like 'def', and your config file actually becomes shorter: def('dbserver', 'productiondb.example.com'); def('otherconstants', 'foobar'); "define" itself is just a function name, not a reserved word, so you could even declare the above as "define" in a namespace, then add "use function SomeNamespace\define;" and leave the rest of the file alone. Regards, -- Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]