Re: Debugging with zero cost in production

On 10/24/2016 7:10 PM, David Rodrigues wrote: > Hello, folks. > > I'm thinking about a debug function to allow us to create "zero cost > declarations" in production code, as assert() does. > > From what I understand, if I have something like assert(method()), > method() will not be called in production, only in development. > > This behaviour is great because we can help the PHPUnit, for instance, > to capture messages in specific places to check if some process have > generated the correct value without test it alone. > > For instance: > > // On test()'ed method: > debug(TestStack::put($varValue)); > > // On test method: > test(); > static::assertSame(123, TestStack::pop()); > > How it should be a debug code, should be important that it not be > generated and executed in production. > > Could I use assert() to do that, in all case? Then I could consider it > as "already implemented". > > Bye! > You can already use assert in exactly this manner. -- Richard "Fleshgrinder" Fussenegger