Re: Flamewar Summary

On 17.5.2006 1:26 Uhr, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > There are 2 PHP 5.2 changes there has been a lot of back and forth > flaming going around and we need to finally come to a decision about. > > The two topics are: > > Inclusion of E_STRICT and E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR into E_ALL -1, especially for including E_STRICT. > Addition of support for dynamic statics ala: class foo {} foo::$bar = 1; Don't care that much, but looks like there are technical reasons for better not doing that, so -1 here too. chregu > > So please throw in your +1/-1 so, that we can have a conclusion on these > matters. > > Personally, I am against both changes. > > I think the error reporting level change is too major change for a minor > release such as 5.2 and will cause problems for all the people who use > things like E_ALL &~ E_NOTICE and will now > see E_STRICT messages that is not their intent to see, with the setting > they are only anticipating warnings and errors. Given that most people > don't bother to turn of displaying of errors, it could have an affect on > quite a few applications, very few big PHP apps can run without > generating any E_STRICT messages. > > As far as statics, there are no BC reasons not to do it that I can think > of, but it just seems wrong to me from a design perspective to allow > dynamic creation of static object properties. > > Ilia Alshanetsky > Advanced Internet Designs Inc. > ilia@prohost.org > > P.S. Please stay on topic. > > --PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- christian stocker | Bitflux GmbH | schoeneggstrasse 5 | ch-8004 zurich phone +41 44 240 56 70 | mobile +41 76 561 88 60 | fax +41 1 240 56 71 http://www.bitflux.ch | christian.stocker@bitflux.ch | GPG 0x5CE1DECB