Re: E_STRICT

At 17:20 19/11/2003, Ferdinand Beyer wrote:

On 19 Nov 2003 at 0:00, Andi Gutmans wrote: Hey, I added an E_STRICT error level today which purists can use to make sure that there scripts are using the latest and greatest suggested method of coding (according to what we decide). Ideas are things like: a) Not using var for member variables but moving to PPP. b) Not using is_a but using instanceof. If you have any further ideas of stuff which makes sense to add to this option let me know. For obvious reasons this will be off by default. Andi What's the difference between E_NOTICE and E_STRICT then? It would be as easy to trigger errors like "Notice: Use of deprecated function is_a; use instanceof instead" Purists who want to be sure to be coding >The PHP Way< will use error_level = E_ALL anyway...

I think we discussed this in the past, but the one (or rather, two) line summary - E_NOTICE is usable for many practical non-purist situations, such as detection of broken variable names, etc. We don't want to force people that want their code to be E_NOTICE clean to also be fully compliant with the latest PHP compatibility guidelines... Zeev