Re: php4-strict?

Hello Jeroen, There was a big thread on php-dev about this, and it's starting again now. Mostly the backward compatible stuff was the problem. Derick On Tue, 15 May 2001, Jeroen wrote: > Hi, > > Currently the namespace of variables is very broad, > variable-names can be any string, even the empty one. > (using the ${expr} syntax) > > Of course, this yields the fastest results, since all > variable-name checking would just take more time. > > But isn't it a good idea to introduce some 'php4-strict' > directive, and with that directive on, this is not > allowed anymore, along with some other deprecated > but still working constructs? > > Current scripts won't get broken, but if you want to > be sure that you're programming right, you should turn > it on, just like you should turn on error-reporting=E_ALL > when programming. > > Notices like 'variable not initialised' should also only > be generated/checked for when this directive is on. > > On production sites, the directive should be turned off: > the script will be (marginally) faster, and you won't > get non-critical errors to the user. > > Greetz, > Jeroen > jeroen@a-es2.uu.nl > > > > -- > PHP Language Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-lang-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-lang-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > Derick Rethans --------------------------------------------------------------------- PHP: Scripting the Web - www.php.net - derick@php.net SRM: Site Resource Manager - www.vl-srm.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------