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

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > >> How about a global "disable error suppression" setting? That way a > >> project lead could enforce it for their codebase (and guarantee that > >> devs "aren't lazy"), but PHP doesn't lose its pragmatism? > > > > I don't think that would work out too well. Remember that many projects > have > > error handles which convert all errors to exceptions: if you disable @ in > > those projects, wouldn't their code break? > > > Nope. > Supressed errors already reach custom error handlers: > https://3v4l.org/TG8aA > sure and most projects check the error_reporting() level against the $errno like in the manual: if (!(error_reporting() & $errno)) { // This error code is not included in error_reporting return; } @ changes the error_reporting() level for that particular call, so those custom error handler won't throw exceptions for the suppressed errors but when you remove/nop @ their code would throwing stuff left and right. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu