Re: [PATCH] #52563: Adding E_NONE and/or E_EVERYTHING constants

On 25 August 2010 01:47, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > You seriously don't know why one needs constants or don't see a difference between > constant E_WARNING equal to 8 and constant E_NONE meaning "nothing" and equal to 0? How > about having constants ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR? Just in case, won't hurt anybody, right? :) Daily WTF is that way. :) I didn't lodge the original request, but I thought the reasoning behind E_NONE was pretty clear: it's pointless, sure, but it visually lines up with the other E_ constants. At that point, you can just make the advice when helping out PHP developers on support forums "always use an E_ constant with error_reporting" and not have the current situation where sometimes you use a constant (or constants) and sometimes you use a bare number, depending on what you want to achieve. Aside from the potential conflict issue Johannes noted, I thought it seemed pretty harmless. Adam