Re: STH and the 3 RFCs

On 13/03/15 18:53, guilhermeblanco@gmail.com wrote: > By considering PHP's nature, having a dual mode is a WTF. I can see myself > asking multiple times a day "is this file strict or not?" to trace > potential bugs or type juggling. I do want strict, but I don't think it's > the right time for PHP to make this move. Userland would have strictness, > but all internal functions are a weird WTF type juggling mode. I originally > switched my vote many times in the v3 of the RFC, mainly because PHP > developers are the ones that would suffer by these configurability on a > daily basis. I ended up with a YES vote because when considering STH or > nothing at all, I prefer to have some. The bigger WTF is perhaps that moving forward one has no idea just what a third party library is using internally. A case has been made that this does not matter since calling that library from a non-strict site will simply work as now, but in that case the library is not designed to handle non-strict input. It assumes that the strict check happens, where a well designed 'weak' library will be handling the edge cases properly. It not simply a matter of "is this file strict or not?" but rather "what happens when I pass the wrong data?". -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk