Re: [RFC] Replace "Missing argument" warning with "Too few arguments" exception

> On Jun 1, 2016, at 3:56 PM, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 01/06/2016 19:36, Aaron Piotrowski wrote: >> While this might be considered a BC break, I can't imagine there's an actual code >> out there relying on suppressing the warning just to call a function without enough arguments. I see >> no problem putting this change in 7.1. > > I think you're overestimating how much people care about their code running without > warnings. You don't have to suppress anything, just lazily ignore warnings, or log them to a > file you never get round to reading. It *might* be that most users spot and act on the warnings, but > I'm not sure how we could know that with any confidence. > Perhaps I'm overestimating how much people care about eliminating warnings, but I doubt many functions work as intended without being supplied all required arguments. The few situations where code worked as intended when too few arguments were provided to a function are fragile and should be fixed. This change will better alert users to those problems. Aaron Piotrowski