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

How does this differ from the return values of functions using WRONG_PARAM_COUNT and zend_parse_parameters()? --Wez On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Zeev Suraski wrote: > At 16:23 29/03/2003, Timm Friebe wrote: > >On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 13:10, Zeev Suraski wrote: > >[...] > > > >After reading through a bunch of mails this generated, I get the idea > > > >that most people here would be happier with an E_WARNING and the > > > >function not being executed. > > > > > > ?! > > > > > > How the heck can we even think about such a thing? When you call a > > > function, you expect it to run. The code that follows it may rely on > > stuff > > > that it has done. Not running it is simply not an option, I can't even > > > begin to imagine the possible consequences of such an approach! > > > >Well, at the moment, the function is not run either, isn't it? The > >program dies. > > Right. Code assuming that it ran successfully is therefore never > reached. That is fundamentally different from just not running the > function and returning control to the caller. That's *extremely* dangerous.