Re: [Zend Engine 2] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [Zend Engine 2] Type hints revisited [IllegalArgumentException instead of E_ERROR]

From:	Andi Gutmans	Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2003 14:24:09 +0000
Subject:	Re: [Zend Engine 2] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [Zend Engine 2] Type hints revisited [IllegalArgumentException instead of E_ERROR]
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At 08:59 AM 3/28/2003 -0500, Sterling Hughes wrote:

Pah, we all know the future is psp (http://www.edwardbear.org/mod_psp-0.3.tar.gz ;-)

psp sucks badly :P

Just to be clear: I'd be happier without type hinting then type hinting throwing an E_ERROR (a E_WARNING would also make me happy). The problem I have is the 1% of the time where a type mismatch doesn't get caught, running normal code on a production site, and it causes a bailout. I can imagine that's going to cause quite a few errors (display_errors off, hard to reproduce bug).

You mean that a function which is supposed to receive an object and calls methods on that objects/manipulates that object and etc. shouldn't lead to a fatal error? I think you're exaggerating big time. I think this is a case where you want your script to fail and you can use the error handler to create a more user friendly error page. Andi