Coding Standards : misuse of the @ error control operator

Hi all, I didn't see any reference in the PEAR Coding Standards to the use of the @ error control operator, and I would like to have your opinions... This operator is certainly a powerful language construction, but IMHO I think it can be misused, and should not be used to hide some bad design. For example, in BBCodeParser.php (sorry Stijn I had the pb on this script !) there is an instructions : $nextOpenPos = @strpos($str, $this->_options['open'], $openPos + 1); that produce an alert (with error_reporting = E_ALL in my php.ini) because $openPos is initialized with the length of the string, and $openPos + 1 is outside the string : Alerte [2] offset not contained in string in /usr/share/pear/HTML/BBCodeParser.php line 289 But it should be more correct to check the argument before using it, don't you think ? Regards, -------------------- Frederic Poeydomenge