Re: Deprecation of the Error Control Operator (@ symbol)

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 3:57 AM, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote: >> From: Derick Rethans [mailto:derick@php.net] >> That's going to mean an INI setting.. that hosters could abuse. >> Having an INI setting like this as part of core is IMO not a great idea. > I honestly don't understand why that's a bad idea. There are a LOT of settings that hosters could abuse, but as a general rule they don't, because it breaks client apps and clients leave. A hoster could just as easily install XDebug and turn that setting on. Are they doing that? Or are you, Derick Rethans, suggesting that installing XDebug is a bad idea? ;) > I agree. Perhaps through a declare() statement instead? We could easily > make it file-based, so that the declare() statement only affects the local > file, or we could make it global for the entire request. > Eh, feels very tomato-tomato to me. Trading in a line in php.ini/.htaccess/index.php for a line in index.php. Ultimately I'm the wrong person to defend this since I don't personally have a need for it, I was just trying to offer compromises. For context, I do believe the person suggesting it was thinking in terms of "Finding that fatal error that's been supressed." -Sara