Re: Is it a good idea to have a "strict" mode?

> > You might get more approval for: declare(strict=1); > > I would like to see this to help catch typeos in variable names. If a > variable > is assigned and it does not already exist some sort of error would be > raised. > The inspiration of this is from Perl where 'use strict' does this. > > How to declare a variable ? The keyword 'var' exists, it is only used in > classes > but could be used to declare variables in functions and at the top level. > > Thus: > > declare(strict=1); > > var $foo; // Declared but not given a value - so give it NULL > var $bar = 1; > > $foo = 234; > > $baz = 10; // This would error - $baz is a typeo for $bar > > You can achieve that already quiet simple <?php error_reporting(E_ALL); set_error_handler(function($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline){ throw new \Exception($errstr); }); $a = $b;