E_STRICT in PHP 5 (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] forward compatibility "public" in 4.4)

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Zeev Suraski wrote: > At 18:30 16/06/2005, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > >Derick Rethans wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > after reading this very long thread, and problems with having the public > > > keyword I decided not to allow any kind of forward compability to be > > > introduced into PHP 4.4. Discussion is over. > > > >Yeah, I think the change really needs to be in PHP5 instead. Right now > >the E_STRICT warnings in PHP5 on this stuff are not very useful. They > >are just strict enough to be annoying by warning about "var" but not > >strict enough to be useful because there is no warning on undeclared > >properties. > > I agree with half of what you're saying - I think we should also emit E_STRICT > in case of creation of undeclared properties. We already have it in pretty > much but it's commented out (probably since there was no E_STRICT when it was > introduced, and an E_NOTICE was too aggressive). If there are no objections, > I'll uncomment it and change it to E_STRICT. > > I think the E_STRICT warnings on var should stay. Yeah, I agree - because it easily shows which classes you didnt port yet. Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org