Re: Regression between RC1 and RC2?

Hi! >> So the problem basically is that in PHP 7.0 both print_r and var_dump directly >> print to output. This means that by the time the exception is thrown, we've >> already written output. This makes it unclear how exactly the exception should >> be handled. Is it okay to just print everything and handle the exception >> afterward? This seems odd to me -- if an operation fails it shouldn't do anything. This sounds nice in theory, in practice often impossible. I.e. if you already started printing and then some dependency fails, then you get half-printed output. That's fine IMHO. Exception is not a normal condition, so you get result which is not normal. >> In PHP 7.1 I've rewritten print_r() to use an internal buffer, so we could handle >> this case completely gracefully. The same change could be implemented for >> var_dump(). With this approach we'd only print anything if no exception >> occurred. This is ok, but I don't think it's required. If you've got in exception in conversion, all bets are off, any result that passes a low sanity margin IMHO is ok - including both printing whatever happened before the exception and not printing anything. -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com