Re: Re: [PATCH] Notice on array to string convertion

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney < weierophinney@php.net> wrote: > On 2011-06-02, Patrick ALLAERT <patrickallaert@php.net> wrote: > > I would like to introduce an E_NOTICE when an array is silently > > converted to a string. > > This isn't very useful as it constantly produces the following string: > > "Array" and in most of the case, this is a sign of an error. > > > > Let me know about your feelings. > > +1 (for E_NOTICE) > > This allows warning folks easily during development of potential issues, > and for those of us using tools like PHPUnit, we'll catch the problem > early. At the same time, it doesn't break existing code. > > I'm curious, why do you think that E_WARNING would break existing code? the only think that I can come up with, that some people runs with display_errors = On, and they doesn't mask E_WARNINGs with error_reporting. I think that this would be more reason to use E_WARNING there, else those people won't get noticed about this problem. Tyrael