RE: [PHP-DEV] STH and the 3 RFCs

Hey David, > A library written in weak or strict mode will have no bearing on its public API. Strictly speaking (pun intended), this is not true. A library can easily expose a facade that enforces a user of that library (who is in weak mode) to have to write in strict mode [1]. Once more, this can be done unintentionally [2] because of the caller-deciding semantics. These examples can be further extended into wrapper classes, nested library dependencies, etc. Sure, you could argue that this could easily be turned off by simply removing the top declare() statement of that library, but modifying the library in itself introduces complications - especially when using dependency managers like Composer. [1] https://gist.github.com/tpunt/4830d18d47e2df021c2f [2] https://gist.github.com/tpunt/eecfed2495bdccb73632 -Tom