Re: handling non-fatal compile-time errors

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I've just bumped into > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65322 recently, and > I > would like you get some opinions on the issue. > Personally I think that it is a really bad design to introduce > pedantic(E_STRICT) errors which can break basic functionality of the engine > (calling the registered autoloader), so if there is no viable solution to > make the autoloader work for these kind of errors, I would like to propose > removing the offending errors and make it a rule to not add compile-time > non-fatal errors until the problem is resolved. > I didn't look into the underlying problem with the autoloader, but just removing the errors is not a solution. If this is so problematic we should just drop E_STRICT and use more appropriate error types that already exist - e.g. in the compiler E_COMPILE_WARNING can be used, which will not invoke a custom error handler and as such can't cause this issue. We already have special error types for the compiler, so why not use them? Nikita